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DATE
2010
IEEE
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Coordinated resource optimization in behavioral synthesis
Abstract—Reducing resource usage is one of the most important optimization objectives in behavioral synthesis due to its direct impact on power, performance and cost. The datapat...
Jason Cong, Bin Liu, Junjuan Xu
ISCA
2003
IEEE
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Overcoming the Limitations of Conventional Vector Processors
Despite their superior performance for multimedia applications, vector processors have three limitations that hinder their widespread acceptance. First, the complexity and size of...
Christoforos E. Kozyrakis, David A. Patterson
FCCM
2003
IEEE
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Issues and Approaches to Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Architecture Development
Although domain-specialized FPGAs can offer significant area, speed and power improvements over conventional reconfigurable devices, there are several unique and unexplored design...
Kenneth Eguro, Scott Hauck
SAMOS
2004
Springer
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with Wide Functional Units
— Architectural resources and program recurrences are the main limitations to the amount of Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) exploitable from loops, the most time-consuming pa...
Miquel Pericàs, Eduard Ayguadé, Javi...
RTCSA
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Instruction Scheduling with Release Times and Deadlines on ILP Processors
ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism) processors are being increasingly used in embedded systems. In embedded systems, instructions may be subject to timing constraints. An optimisi...
Hui Wu, Joxan Jaffar, Jingling Xue
ASAP
2006
IEEE
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2D-VLIW: An Architecture Based on the Geometry of Computation
This work proposes a new architecture and execution model called 2D-VLIW. This architecture adopts an execution model based on large pieces of computation running over a matrix of...
Ricardo Santos, Rodolfo Azevedo, Guido Araujo
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
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Multiple-Width Bus Partitioning Approach to Datapath Synthesis
—A shared bus is a suitable structure for minimizing the interconnections costs in system synthesis. It has also been shown that the word-length of Functional Units has a great i...
Arash Ahmadi, Mark Zwolinski
ARITH
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Performing Advanced Bit Manipulations Efficiently in General-Purpose Processors
This paper describes a new basis for the implementation of a shifter functional unit. We present a design based on the inverse butterfly and butterfly datapath circuits that perfo...
Yedidya Hilewitz, Ruby B. Lee