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DSD
2008
IEEE
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A Look-Ahead Task Management Unit for Embedded Multi-Core Architectures
Efficient utilization of multi-core architectures relies on the partitioning of applications into tasks and mapping the tasks to cores. In some applications (e.g. H.264 video deco...
Magnus Själander, Andrei Terechko, Marc Duran...
DSD
2008
IEEE
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Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-objective Design Space Exploration
Platform-based design represents the most widely used approach to design System-On-Chip (SOC) applications. In this context, the Design Space Exploration (DSE) phase consists of o...
Gianluca Palermo, Cristina Silvano, Vittorio Zacca...
DSD
2008
IEEE
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Analyzing Scalability of Deblocking Filter of H.264 via TLP Exploitation in a New Many-Core Architecture
In this paper we present results of parallelization of Deblocking Filter (DF) of H.264 video codec on Decoupled Threaded Architecture (DTA). We parallelized the code trying to exp...
Roberto Giorgi, Zdravko Popovic, Nikola Puzovic, A...
DSD
2008
IEEE
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VLSI Implementation of a Cryptography-Oriented Reconfigurable Array
The long-word and very long-word addition required in cryptography applications generally requires custom hardware support provided by ASICs or application-specific instructions i...
Scott Miller, Ambrose Chu, Mihai Sima, Michael McG...
DSD
2008
IEEE
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Reducing Leakage through Filter Cache
We evaluate the leakage reduction for both instruction and data cache in presence of drowsy or decay techniques. We discovered that a filter cache, traditionally used for reducing...
Roberto Giorgi, Paolo Bennati
DSD
2008
IEEE
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Reliable Data Transmission over Simple Wireless Channels: A Case Study
We discuss the issue of reliable transmission of bounded streams of data samples over simple wireless channels offered by low-end RF modules. Traditional solutions, i.e., window-b...
Pawel Gburzynski, Bozena Kaminska, Ashikur Rahman
DSD
2008
IEEE
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A Low-Cost Cache Coherence Verification Method for Snooping Systems
Due to modern technology trends such as decreasing feature sizes and lower voltage levels, fault tolerance is becoming increasingly important in computing systems. Shared memory i...
Demid Borodin, Ben H. H. Juurlink
DSD
2008
IEEE
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Leveraging Data Promotion for Low Power D-NUCA Caches
Alessandro Bardine, Manuel Comparetti, Pierfrances...
DSD
2008
IEEE
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A New Rounding Algorithm for Variable Latency Division and Square Root Implementations
The aim of this work is to present a method for rounding quadratically converging algorithms that improves their performance. This method is able to reduce significantly the numbe...
D. Piso, Javier D. Bruguera
DSD
2008
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Revisiting the Cache Effect on Multicore Multithreaded Network Processors
Caching mechanism has achieved great success in general purpose processor; however, its deployment in Network Processor (NP) raises questions over its effectiveness under the new ...
Zhen Liu, Jia Yu, Xiaojun Wang, Bin Liu, Laxmi N. ...