VLIW architectures are popular in embedded systems because they offer high-performance processing at low cost and energy. The major problem with traditional VLIW designs is that t...
Hongtao Zhong, Kevin Fan, Scott A. Mahlke, Michael...
Reduced energy consumption is one of the most important design goals for embedded application domains like wireless, multimedia and biomedical. Instruction memory hierarchy has be...
Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala...
We present a new VLIW core as a successor to the TriMedia TM1000. The processor is targeted for embedded use in media-processing devices like DTVs and set-top boxes. Intended as a...
Jos T. J. van Eijndhoven, Kees A. Vissers, Evert-J...
To support high-performance and low-power for multimedia applications and for hand-held devices, embedded VLIW DSP processors are of research focus. With the tight resource constr...
Chi Wu, Kun-Yuan Hsieh, Yung-Chia Lin, Chung-Ju Wu...
In this paper, we propose a low-power approach to the design of embedded very long instruction word (VLIW) processor architectures based on the forwarding (or bypassing) hardware, ...