CASES
2007
ACM
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2007
ACM
This paper presents the first automatic scheme to allocate local (stack) data in recursive functions to scratch-pad memory (SPM) in embedded systems. A scratch-pad is a fast direct...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
Embedded platforms are resource-constrained systems in which performance and memory requirements of executed code are of critical importance. However, standard techniques such as ...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
Delayed branching is a technique to alleviate branch hazards without expensive hardware branch prediction mechanisms. For VLIW processors with deep pipelines and many issue slots,...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) has been used to achieve numerous goals (e.g., better performance) for general-purpose computers. Recently, DBT has also attracted attention for e...
CASES
2007
ACM
2007
ACM
INTACTE: an interconnect area, delay, and energy estimation tool for microarchitectural explorations
13 years 11 months ago
Prior work on modeling interconnects has focused on optimizing the wire and repeater design for trading off energy and delay, and is largely based on low level circuit parameters....
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
We derive analytically, the performance optimal throttling curve for a processor under thermal constraints for a given task sequence. We found that keeping the chip temperature co...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a flexible, and extensible, just-in-time ARM simulator designed to run co-operatively with a multi-core DSP simulator on...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
In this paper, we describe the organization and microarchitecture of MT-MB, a configurable implementation of the Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor that supports multithreading. Usi...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
For memory constrained environments like embedded systems, optimization for program size is often as important, if not more important, as optimization for execution speed. Commonl...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2007
ACM
This paper presents a new register assignment heuristic for procedures in SSA Form, whose interference graphs are chordal; the heuristic is called optimistic chordal coloring (OCC...