The implementation of embedded networked appliances requires a mix of processor cores and HW accelerators on a single chip. When designing such complex and heterogeneous SoCs, the...
Geert Vanmeerbeeck, Patrick Schaumont, Serge Verna...
We introduce the foundation of a system modeling environment targeted at capturing the anticipated interactions of hardware and software behaviors -- not just their co-execution. ...
Neal K. Tibrewala, JoAnn M. Paul, Donald E. Thomas
Power consumption is an important design parameter for embedded and portable systems. Software-controlled (or dynamic) power management (DPM) has recently emerged as an attractive...
Vishnu Swaminathan, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, S. Sit...
Most research to date on energy minimization in DSP processors has focuses on hardware solution. This paper examines the software-based factors affecting performance and energy co...
This paper explores an application-specific customization technique for the data cache, one of the foremost area/power consuming and performance determining microarchitectural fea...