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CASES
2001
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Patchable instruction ROM architecture
Increased systems level integration has meant the movement of many traditionally off chip components onto a single chip including a processor, instruction storage, data path, and ...
Timothy Sherwood, Brad Calder
MICRO
1997
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Improving Code Density Using Compression Techniques
We propose a method for compressing programs in embedded processors where instruction memory size dominates cost. A post-compilation analyzer examines a program and replaces commo...
Charles Lefurgy, Peter L. Bird, I-Cheng K. Chen, T...
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
129views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Instruction buffering exploration for low energy VLIWs with instruction clusters
— For multimedia applications, loop buffering is an efficient mechanism to reduce the power in the instruction memory of embedded processors. In particular, software controlled ...
Tom Vander Aa, Murali Jayapala, Francisco Barat, G...
DDECS
2006
IEEE
108views Hardware» more  DDECS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of Shared Instruction Memory on Performance of FPGA-based MP-SoC Video Encoder
—The impact of shared instruction memory on performance is measured and analyzed for an FPGAbased Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) with an MPEG-4 video encoding application...
Ari Kulmala, Erno Salminen, Olli Lehtoranta, Timo ...
DATE
2006
IEEE
159views Hardware» more  DATE 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed loop controller architecture for multi-threading in uni-threaded VLIW processors
Reduced energy consumption is one of the most important design goals for embedded application domains like wireless, multimedia and biomedical. Instruction memory hierarchy has be...
Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala...