SBACPAD
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Due to the advent of multi-core processors and the consequent need for better concurrent programming abstractions, new synchronization paradigms have emerged. A promising one, kno...
SBACPAD
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Numerous studies have shown that Operating System (OS) noise is one of the reasons for significant performance degradation in clustered architectures. Although many studies exami...
SBACPAD
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Transactional memory is emerging as a parallel programming paradigm for multi-core processors. Despite the recent interest in transactional memory, there has been no study to char...
SBACPAD
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
The performance impact of the Physical Register File (PRF) size on Simultaneous Multithreading processors has not been extensively studied in spite of being a critical shared reso...
SASP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
SASP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract—Customised processor performance generally increases as additional custom instructions are added. However, performance is not the only metric that modern systems must ta...
SASP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
SASP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
— With the increasing popularity of MP3 audio, there is a need to develop cost and power efficient architectures for the MP3 encoder and decoder. This paper describes dedicated ...
SASP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
—In this paper we present a method for construction of application specific processor cores from a given C code. Our approach consists of three phases. We start by quantifying t...
SASP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper proposes an energy efficient processor which can be used as a design alternative for the dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) processors in embedded system design. The proces...