ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
CAD tools have become more and more important for integrated circuit (IC) design since a complicated system can be designed into a single chip, called system-on-a-chip (SOC), in w...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
With continued reductions in feature size, additional functionality may be added to future microprocessors to boost the performance of important application domains. Due to growth...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
We introduce the midlifekicker metric for evaluating microarchitectures mostly during the design process. We assume a microarchitecture designed at a time T-1 and estimate if a ne...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper focuses on SIMD implementations of the 2D discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The transforms considered are Daubechies’ real-to-real method of four coefficients (Daub-...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
The task of automatic design space exploration of heterogeneous multi-processor systems is often tackled with Evolutionary Algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel approach i...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
As billion transistor System-on-chips (SoC) become commonplace and design complexity continues to increase, designers are faced with the daunting task of meeting escalating design...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
We studied the dynamic instruction count reduction for a single-thread, vectorized and a multi-threaded, non-vectorized, MPEG-4 video encoder. Results indicate a maximum improveme...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a hardware/software partitioning method for improving applications’ performance in embedded systems. Critical software parts are accelerated on hardwar...