The growing complexity of modern processors has made the development of highly efficient code increasingly difficult. Manually developing highly efficient code is usually expen...
Set-associative caches are traditionally managed using hardwarebased lookup and replacement schemes that have high energy overheads. Ideally, the caching strategy should be tailor...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Michael L. Chu, Scott A. Mahlk...
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...
Dynamic correctness checking tools (a.k.a. lifeguards) can detect a wide array of correctness issues, such as memory, security, and concurrency misbehavior, in unmodified executa...
Olatunji Ruwase, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, ...
One can e ectively utilize predicated execution to improve branch handling in instruction-level parallel processors. Although the potential bene ts of predicated execution are hig...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, James E. McCormi...