Multimedia and network processing applications make extensive use of subword data. Since registers are capable of holding a full data word, when a subword variable is assigned a r...
In today's embedded systems, memory hierarchy is rapidly becoming a major factor in terms of power, performance and area. This is especially true for embedded multimedia appl...
Youcef Bouchebaba, Gabriela Nicolescu, El Mostapha...
In previous work, we presented a Typed Assembly Language (TAL). TAL is sufficiently expressive to serve as a target language for compilers of high-level languages such as ML. More...
J. Gregory Morrisett, Karl Crary, Neal Glew, David...
Scheduling is widely recognized as a very important step in highlevel synthesis. Nevertheless, it is usually done without taking into account the effects on the actual hardware im...
Luciano Lavagno, Mihai T. Lazarescu, Stefano Quer,...
Most programming languages support a call stack in the programming model and also in the runtime system. We show that for applications targeting low-power embedded microcontroller...