The increasing use of microprocessor cores in embedded systems as well as mobile and portable devices creates an opportunity for customizing the cache subsystem for improved perfo...
Today, embedded processors are expected to be able to run complex, algorithm-heavy applications that were originally designed and coded for general-purpose processors. As a result...
Caches may consume half of a microprocessor’s total power and cache misses incur accessing off-chip memory, which is both time consuming and energy costly. Therefore, minimizing...
Procedure Positioning is a well known compiler optimization aiming at the improvement of the instruction cache behavior. A contiguous mapping of procedures calling each other freq...
In design of an embedded system with a cache, it is important to minimize the cache miss rate to reduce the power consumption as well as to improvethe performance of the system. W...