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ASAP
2007
IEEE
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An Application Specific Memory Characterization Technique for Co-processor Accelerators
Commodity accelerator technologies including reconfigurable devices provide an order of magnitude performance improvement compared to mainstream microprocessor systems. A number o...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Melissa C. Smith
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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Hardware Design of a Binary Integer Decimal-based IEEE P754 Rounding Unit
Because of the growing importance of decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic, specifications for it were recently added to the draft revision of the IEEE 754 Standard (IEEE P754)....
Charles Tsen, Michael J. Schulte, Sonia Gonzalez-N...
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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A Hardware-Oriented Method for Evaluating Complex Polynomials
A hardware-oriented method for evaluating complex polynomials by solving iteratively a system of linear equations is proposed. Its implementation uses a digit-serial iterations on...
Milos D. Ercegovac, Jean-Michel Muller
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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SIMD Vectorization of Histogram Functions
Existing SIMD extensions cannot efficiently vectorize the histogram function due to memory collisions. We propose two techniques to avoid this problem. In the first, a hierarchi...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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GISP: A Transparent Superpage Support Framework for Linux
Though all of the current main-stream OSs have supported superpage to some extent, most of them need runtime information provided by applications, simulator or other tools. Transp...
Ning Qu, Yansong Zheng, Wei Cao, Xu Cheng
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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Reduced Delay BCD Adder
Financial and commercial applications use decimal data and spend most of their time in decimal arithmetic. Software implementation of decimal arithmetic is typically at least 100 ...
A. A. Bayrakci, A. Akkas
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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Real-time FPGA-implementation for blue-sky Detection
Currently, television sets with flat plasma and LCD screens with improved resolutions and better color quality are emerging. To fully utilize their capabilities, lower resolution...
Nhut Thanh Quach, Bahman Zafarifar, Georgi Gaydadj...
ASAP
2007
IEEE
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Entropy Coding on a Programmable Processor Array for Multimedia SoC
Entropy encoding and decoding is a crucial part of any multimedia system that can be highly demanding in terms of computing power. Hardware implementation of typical compression a...
Roberto R. Osorio, Javier D. Bruguera
SRDS
2008
IEEE
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Probabilistic Failure Detection for Efficient Distributed Storage Maintenance
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must ge...
Jing Tian, Zhi Yang, Wei Chen, Ben Y. Zhao, Yafei ...