In this paper, we investigate the benefits of a flexible, application-specific instruction set by adding a run-time Reconfigurable Functional Unit (RFU) to a VLIW processor. Preli...
High performance general-purpose processors are increasingly being used for a variety of application domains scienti c, engineering, databases, and more recently, media processing...
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Sarita V. Adve, Norman ...
Multi-core architectures are increasingly being adopted in the design of emerging complex embedded systems. Key issues of designing such systems are on-chip interconnects, memory a...
Ying Yi, Wei Han, Xin Zhao, Ahmet T. Erdogan, Tugh...
Powering down SDRAMs at run-time reduces memory energy consumption significantly, but often at the cost of performance. If employed speculatively with real-time memory controller...
Abstract. Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being spread to areas in which the contextual parameters modeling the environment are changing over the application l...
Amirhosein Taherkordi, Quan Le Trung, Romain Rouvo...