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2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Light-weight synchronization for inter-processor communication acceleration on embedded MPSoCs
Advances in semiconductor technologies have placed MPSoCs center stage as a standard architecture for embedded applications of ever increasing complexity. Efficient utilization of...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A low power front-end for embedded processors using a block-aware instruction set
Energy, power, and area efficiency are critical design concerns for embedded processors. Much of the energy of a typical embedded processor is consumed in the front-end since inst...
Ahmad Zmily, Christos Kozyrakis
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
SCCP/x: a compilation profile to support testing and verification of optimized code
Embedded systems are often used in safety-critical environments. Thus, thorough testing of them is mandatory. A quite active research area is the automatic test-case generation fo...
Raimund Kirner
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A fast and generic hybrid simulation approach using C virtual machine
Instruction Set Simulators (ISSes) are important tools for cross-platform software development. The simulation speed is a major concern and many approaches have been proposed to i...
Lei Gao, Stefan Kraemer, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Asch...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Rethinking custom ISE identification: a new processor-agnostic method
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of the Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (ASIP) as a viable platform for embedded systems. Extensible ASIPs allow the user...
Ajay K. Verma, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Non-transparent debugging for software-pipelined loops
This paper tackles the problem of providing correct information about program variable values in a software-pipelined loop through a non-transparent debugging approach. Since mode...
Hugo Venturini, Frédéric Riss, Jean-...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Cache leakage control mechanism for hard real-time systems
Leakage energy consumption is an increasingly important issue as the technology continues to shrink. Since on-chip caches constitute a major portion of the processor's transi...
Jaw-Wei Chi, Chia-Lin Yang, Yi-Jung Chen, Jian-Jia...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Performance evaluation and optimization of dual-port SDRAM architecture for mobile embedded systems
Recently dual-port SDRAM (DPSDRAM) architecture tailored for dual-processor based mobile embedded systems has been announced where a single memory chip plays the role of the local...
Hoeseok Yang, Sungchan Kim, Hae-woo Park, Jinwoo K...
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Application driven embedded system design: a face recognition case study
The key to increasing performance without a commensurate increase in power consumption in modern processors lies in increasing both parallelism and core specialization. Core speci...
Karthik Ramani, Al Davis
CASES
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Software controlled memory layout reorganization for irregular array access patterns
Doosan Cho, Ilya Issenin, Nikil Dutt, Jonghee W. Y...