SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract—Customised processor performance generally increases as additional custom instructions are added. However, performance is not the only metric that modern systems must ta...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— With the increasing popularity of MP3 audio, there is a need to develop cost and power efficient architectures for the MP3 encoder and decoder. This paper describes dedicated ...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—In this paper we present a method for construction of application specific processor cores from a given C code. Our approach consists of three phases. We start by quantifying t...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper proposes an energy efficient processor which can be used as a design alternative for the dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) processors in embedded system design. The proces...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Different approaches have been proposed over the years for automatically transforming High-Level-Languages (HLL) descriptions of applications into custom hardware implementations. ...
SASP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Matrix inversion is a common function found in many algorithms used in wireless communication systems. As FPGAs become an increasingly attractive platform for wireless communic...