Scratch-pad memory is becoming an important fixture in embedded multimedia systems. It is significantly more efficient than the cache, in performance and power, and has the add...
With the growing complexity in consumer embedded products and the improvements in process technology, Multi-Processor SystemOn-Chip (MPSoC) architectures have become widespread. T...
David Atienza, Pablo Garcia Del Valle, Giacomo Pac...
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin,...
— Modern CPUs operate at GHz frequencies, but the latencies of memory accesses are still relatively large, in the order of hundreds of cycles. Deeper cache hierarchies with large...
Konrad Malkowski, Greg M. Link, Padma Raghavan, Ma...
The proliferation of computing technology to low power domains such as hand–held devices has lead to increased interest in portable interface technologies, with particular inter...