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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...