Scratchpads have been widely proposed as an alternative to caches for embedded systems. Advantages of scratchpads include reduced energy consumption in comparison to a cache and a...
Reconfigurable Processors utilize a reconfigurable fabric (to implement application-specific accelerators) and may perform runtime reconfigurations to exchange the set of deployed...
—The StreamIt programming model has been proposed to exploit parallelism in streaming applications on general purpose multicore architectures. This model allows programmers to sp...
Abhishek Udupa, R. Govindarajan, Matthew J. Thazhu...
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...
The recent trend in the processor industry of packing multiple processor cores in a chip has increased the importance of automatic techniques for extracting thread level paralleli...
Easwaran Raman, Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, Dav...