TVLSI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
SMT processors are widely used in high performance computing tasks. However, with the improved performance of the SMT architecture, the utilization of their functional units is sig...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2009
IEEE
Present application specific embedded systems tend to choose instruction set extensions (ISEs) based on limitations imposed by the available data bandwidth to custom functional un...
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
We revisit voltage partitioning problem when the mapped voltages of functional units are predetermined. If energy consumption is estimated by formulation E = CV 2 , a published wo...
PDPTA
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
Abstract In this paper, we propose a microprocessor architecture which eciently utilizes nextgeneration semiconductor technology. While the technology makes it possible to integrat...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
2008
ACM
This paper proposes a novel Behavioral Synthesis method that improves performance of synthesized circuits utilizing specialized functional units effectively. Specialized functional...
ISSS
1995
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
1995
IEEE
Decisions taken at the earliest steps of the design process may have a significantimpact on the characteristics of the final implementation. This paper illustrates how power con...
FPL
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper presents a reconfigurable functional unit (RFU) for an adaptive dynamic extensible processor. The processor can tune its extended instructions to the target application...
EMSOFT
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Miniaturization of devices and the ensuing decrease in the threshold voltage has led to a substantial increase in the leakage component of the total processor energy consumption. ...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2004
IEEE
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 ...
CONPAR
1992
14 years 2 months ago
1992
The Asynchronous Polycyclic Architecture (APA) is a new processor design for numerically intensive applications. APA resembles the VLIW architecture, in that it provides independen...