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HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Compiler-Assisted Memory Encryption for Embedded Processors
A critical component in the design of secure processors is memory encryption which provides protection for the privacy of code and data stored in off-chip memory. The overhead of ...
Vijay Nagarajan, Rajiv Gupta, Arvind Krishnaswamy
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic Capacity-Speed Tradeoffs in SMT Processor Caches
Caches are designed to provide the best tradeoff between access speed and capacity for a set of target applications. Unfortunately, different applications, and even different phas...
Sonia López, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albone...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Branch History Matching: Branch Predictor Warmup for Sampled Simulation
Computer architects and designers rely heavily on simulation. The downside of simulation is that it is very time-consuming — simulating an industry-standard benchmark on today...
Simon Kluyskens, Lieven Eeckhout
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Applying Decay to Reduce Dynamic Power in Set-Associative Caches
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to reduce dynamic power in set-associative caches that leverages on a leakage-saving proposal, namely Cache Decay. We thus open...
Georgios Keramidas, Polychronis Xekalakis, Stefano...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of Offset Assignment Heuristics
Johnny Huynh, José Nelson Amaral, Paul Beru...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reducing Exit Stub Memory Consumption in Code Caches
Abstract. The interest in translation-based virtual execution environments (VEEs) is growing with the recognition of their importance in a variety of applications. However, due to ...
Apala Guha, Kim M. Hazelwood, Mary Lou Soffa
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
MiDataSets: Creating the Conditions for a More Realistic Evaluation of Iterative Optimization
Abstract. Iterative optimization has become a popular technique to obtain improvements over the default settings in a compiler for performance-critical applications, such as embedd...
Grigori Fursin, John Cavazos, Michael F. P. O'Boyl...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Performance/Energy Optimization of DSP Transforms on the XScale Processor
The XScale processor family provides user-controllable independent configuration of CPU, bus, and memory frequencies. This feature introduces another handle for the code optimizat...
Paolo D'Alberto, Markus Püschel, Franz Franch...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Bounds Checking with Taint-Based Analysis
Weihaw Chuang, Satish Narayanasamy, Brad Calder, R...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Leveraging High Performance Data Cache Techniques to Save Power in Embedded Systems
Voltage scaling reduces leakage power for cache lines unlikely to be referenced soon. Partitioning reduces dynamic power via smaller, specialized structures. We combine approaches,...
Major Bhadauria, Sally A. McKee, Karan Singh, Gary...