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APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Reallocation of Functional Units in Superscalar Processors
In the context of general-purpose processing, an increasing number of diverse functional units are added to cover a wide spectrum of applications. However, it is still possible to ...
Marc Epalza, Paolo Ienne, Daniel Mlynek
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Initial Evaluation of a User-Level Device Driver Framework
Device drivers are a significant source of system instability. In this paper, we make the case for running device drivers at user-level to improve robustness and resource managemen...
Kevin Elphinstone, Stefan Götz
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Validating Word-Oriented Processors for Bit and Multi-word Operations
We examine secure computing paradigms to identify any new architectural challenges for future general-purpose processors. Some essential security functions can be provided by diffe...
Ruby B. Lee, Xiao Yang, Zhijie Shi
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Continuous Adaptive Object-Code Re-optimization Framework
Dynamic optimization presents opportunities for finding run-time bottlenecks and deploying optimizations in statically compiled programs. In this paper, we discuss our current impl...
Howard Chen, Jiwei Lu, Wei-Chung Hsu, Pen-Chung Ye...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Fast vectorless power grid verification using an approximate inverse technique
Power grid verification in modern integrated circuits is an integral part of early system design where adjustments can be most easily incorporated. In this work, we describe an ea...
Nahi H. Abdul Ghani, Farid N. Najm
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Reduction techniques for synchronous dataflow graphs
The Synchronous Dataflow (SDF) model of computation is popular for modelling the timing behaviour of real-time embedded hardware and software systems and applications. It is an es...
Marc Geilen
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
RegPlace: a high quality open-source placement framework for structured ASICs
Structured ASICs have recently emerged as an exciting alternative to ASIC or FPGA design style as they provide a new trade-off between the high performance of ASIC design and low ...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Anurag Kumar, David Z. Pan
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
NUDA: a non-uniform debugging architecture and non-intrusive race detection for many-core
Traditional debug methodologies are limited in their ability to provide debugging support for many-core parallel programming. Synchronization problems or bugs due to race conditio...
Chi-Neng Wen, Shu-Hsuan Chou, Tien-Fu Chen, Alan P...
DAC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Cost-aware three-dimensional (3D) many-core multiprocessor design
The emerging three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) is beneficial for various applications from both area and performance perspectives. While the general trend in processor...
Jishen Zhao, Xiangyu Dong, Yuan Xie