A key advantage of soft processors (processors built on an FPGA programmable fabric) over hard processors is that they can be customized to suit an application program's spec...
Peter Yiannacouras, J. Gregory Steffan, Jonathan R...
Soft error reliability has become a first-order design criterion for modern microprocessors. Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) modeling is often used to capture the probab...
Arun A. Nair, Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy...
As semiconductor technology scales, reliability is becoming an increasingly crucial challenge in microprocessor design. The rSRAM and voltage scaling are two promising circuit-lev...
In this paper, we examine the trade-offs in performance and area due to customizing the datapath and instruction set architecture of a soft VLIW processor implemented in a high-den...
Mazen A. R. Saghir, Mohamad El-Majzoub, Patrick Ak...