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2007
IEEE
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Hardware scheduling support in SMP architectures
In this paper we propose a hardware real time operating system (HW-RTOS) that implements the OS layer in a dual-processor SMP architecture. Intertask communication is specified b...
André C. Nácul, Francesco Regazzoni,...
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2007
IEEE
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Improve CAM power efficiency using decoupled match line scheme
Content addressable memory (CAM) is widely used in many applications that require fast table lookup. Due to the parallel comparison feature and high frequency of lookup, however, ...
Yen-Jen Chang, Yuan-Hong Liao, Shanq-Jang Ruan
DATE
2007
IEEE
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The ARTEMIS cross-domain architecture for embedded systems
platform and a suite of abstract components with which new developments in different application domains can be engineered with minimal effort [1]p.16. Generic platforms, or refere...
Hermann Kopetz
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Working with process variation aware caches
Deep-submicron designs have to take care of process variation effects as variations in critical process parameters result in large variations in access latencies of hardware compo...
Madhu Mutyam, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Fast positive-real balanced truncation of symmetric systems using cross Riccati equations
We present a computationally efficient implementation of positive-real balanced truncation (PRBT) for symmetric multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The solution of a p...
Ngai Wong
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Distributed power-management techniques for wireless network video systems
Wireless sensor networks operating on limited energy resources need to be power efficient to extend the system lifetime. This is especially challenging for video sensor networks d...
Nicholas H. Zamora, Jung-Chun Kao, Radu Marculescu
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Microprocessors in the era of terascale integration
Moore’s Law will soon deliver tera-scale level transistor integration capacity. Power, variability, reliability, aging, and testing will pose as barriers and challenges to harne...
Shekhar Borkar, Norman P. Jouppi, Per Stenströ...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Butterfly and benes-based on-chip communication networks for multiprocessor turbo decoding
Several research activities have recently emerged aiming to propose multiprocessor implementations in order to achieve flexible and high throughput parallel iterative decoding. Be...
Hazem Moussa, Olivier Muller, Amer Baghdadi, Miche...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Process variation tolerant low power DCT architecture
: 2-D Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is widely used as the core of digital image and video compression. In this paper, we present a novel DCT architecture that allows aggressive v...
Nilanjan Banerjee, Georgios Karakonstantis, Kaushi...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Instruction trace compression for rapid instruction cache simulation
Modern Application Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs) have customizable caches, where the size, associativity and line size can all be customized to suit a particular ap...
Andhi Janapsatya, Aleksandar Ignjatovic, Sri Param...