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CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A data protection unit for NoC-based architectures
Security is gaining increasing relevance in the development of embedded devices. Towards a secure system at each level of design, this paper addresses the security aspects related...
Leandro Fiorin, Gianluca Palermo, Slobodan Lukovic...
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Power deregulation: eliminating off-chip voltage regulation circuitry from embedded systems
In battery-powered embedded systems, dedicated circuitry is used to convert stored energy into a form that can be directly used by processors. These power regulation devices seek ...
Seunghoon Kim, Robert P. Dick, Russ Joseph
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Simultaneous synthesis of buses, data mapping and memory allocation for MPSoC
Heterogeneous multiprocessors are emerging as the dominant implementation approach to embedded multiprocessor systems. In addition to having processing elements suited to the targ...
Brett H. Meyer, Donald E. Thomas
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Compile-time decided instruction cache locking using worst-case execution paths
Caches are notorious for their unpredictability. It is difficult or even impossible to predict if a memory access results in a definite cache hit or miss. This unpredictability i...
Heiko Falk, Sascha Plazar, Henrik Theiling
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Performance and resource optimization of NoC router architecture for master and slave IP cores
System-on-Chip architectures incorporate several IP cores with well defined master and slave characteristics in terms of on-chip communication. The paper presents a parameterized ...
Glenn Leary, Krishna Mehta, Karam S. Chatha
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Predator: a predictable SDRAM memory controller
Memory requirements of intellectual property components (IP) in contemporary multi-processor systems-on-chip are increasing. Large high-speed external memories, such as DDR2 SDRAM...
Benny Akesson, Kees Goossens, Markus Ringhofer
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Thread warping: a framework for dynamic synthesis of thread accelerators
We present a dynamic optimization technique, thread warping, that uses a single processor on a multiprocessor system to dynamically synthesize threads into custom accelerator circ...
Greg Stitt, Frank Vahid
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Reliable multiprocessor system-on-chip synthesis
This article presents a multiprocessor system-on-chip synthesis (MPSoC) algorithm that optimizes system mean time to failure. Given a set of directed acyclic periodic graphs of co...
Changyun Zhu, Zhenyu (Peter) Gu, Robert P. Dick, L...
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Ensuring secure program execution in multiprocessor embedded systems: a case study
Multiprocessor SoCs are increasingly deployed in embedded systems with little or no security features built in. Code Injection attacks are one of the most commonly encountered sec...
Krutartha Patel, Sridevan Parameswaran, Seng Lin S...