Adding a small loop cache to a microprocessor has been shown to reduce average instruction fetch energy for various sets of embedded system applications. With the advent of core-b...
The latest high-performance IBM PowerPC microprocessor, the POWER5 chip, poses challenges for performance model validation. The current stateof-the-art is to use simple hand-coded...
Robert H. Bell Jr., Rajiv R. Bhatia, Lizy K. John,...
Historically, compilers have operated by applying a fixed set of optimizations in a predetermined order. We call such an ordered list of optimizations a compilation sequence. This...
Keith D. Cooper, Devika Subramanian, Linda Torczon
We present our practical experience in the modeling and integration of cycle/phase-accurate instruction set architecture (ISA) models of digital signal processors (DSPs) with othe...
Lisa M. Guerra, Joachim Fitzner, Dipankar Talukdar...