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SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
FPGA Design Methodology for a Wavelet-Based Scalable Video Decoder
Client-side diversification led the video-coding community to develop scalable video-codecs supporting efficient decoding at varying quality levels. This scalability has a lot of...
Hendrik Eeckhaut, Harald Devos, Philippe Faes, Mar...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
High-Bandwidth Address Generation Unit
In this paper we describe an efficient data fetch circuitry for retrieving several operands from a n-bank interleaved memory system in a single machine cycle. The proposed address ...
Humberto Calderon, Carlo Galuzzi, Georgi Gaydadjie...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Study of Energy Saving in Customizable Processors
Abstract. Embedded systems are special purpose systems which perform predefined tasks with very specific requirements like high performance, low volume or low power. Most of the ...
Paolo Bonzini, Dilek Harmanci, Laura Pozzi
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Automated Power Gating of Registers Using CoDeL and FSM Branch Prediction
In this paper, we use the CoDeL hardware design platform to analyze the potential and performance impact of power gating individual registers. For each register, we examine the per...
Nainesh Agarwal, Nikitas J. Dimopoulos
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
An Interrupt Controller for FPGA-based Multiprocessors
— Interrupt-based programming is widely used for interfacing a processor with peripherals and allowing software threads to interact. Many hardware/software architectures have bee...
Antonino Tumeo, Marco Branca, Lorenzo Camerini, Ma...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Simulation-Based Methodology for Evaluating the DPA-Resistance of Cryptographic Functional Units with Application to CMOS and
Abstract— This paper explores the resistance of MOS Current Mode Logic (MCML) against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) attacks. Circuits implemented in MCML, in fact, have uniqu...
Francesco Regazzoni, Stéphane Badel, Thomas...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Weight-Watcher Service and its Lightweight Implementation
—This paper presents the Weight-Watcher service. This service aims at providing resource consumption measurements and estimations for software executing on resourceconstrained de...
Benoît Garbinato, Rachid Guerraoui, Jarle Hu...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
On the Problem of Minimizing Workload Execution Time in SMT Processors
Abstract—Most research work on (Simultaneous Multithreading Processors) SMTs focuses on improving throughput and/or fairness, or on prioritizing some threads over others in a wor...
Francisco J. Cazorla, Enrique Fernández, Pe...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
An Evolutionary Approach to Area-Time Optimization of FPGA designs
—This paper presents a new methodology based on evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) to synthesize multiple complex modules on programmable devices (FPGAs). It starts ...
Fabrizio Ferrandi, Pier Luca Lanzi, Gianluca Paler...
SAMOS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Side-channel Attack Resistant Programmable PKC Coprocessor for Embedded Applications
—This paper describes the design of a programmable coprocessor for Public Key Cryptography (PKC) on an FPGA. The implementation provides a very broad range of functions together ...
Nele Mentens, Kazuo Sakiyama, Lejla Batina, Bart P...