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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
High radix self-arbitrating switch fabric with multiple arbitration schemes and quality of service
A scalable architecture to design high radix switch fabric is presented. It uses circuit techniques to re-use existing input and output data buses and switching logic for fabric c...
Sudhir Satpathy, Reetuparna Das, Ronald G. Dreslin...
DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Chisel: constructing hardware in a Scala embedded language
In this paper we introduce Chisel, a new hardware construction language that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific h...
Jonathan Bachrach, Huy Vo, Brian Richards, Yunsup ...
DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Is dark silicon useful?: harnessing the four horsemen of the coming dark silicon apocalypse
Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This utiliza...
Michael B. Taylor
DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A QoS-aware memory controller for dynamically balancing GPU and CPU bandwidth use in an MPSoC
Diverse IP cores are integrated on a modern system-on-chip and share resources. Off-chip memory bandwidth is often the scarcest resource and requires careful allocation. Two of t...
Min Kyu Jeong, Mattan Erez, Chander Sudanthi, Nige...
DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
WCET-centric partial instruction cache locking
Caches play an important role in embedded systems by bridging the performance gap between high speed processors and slow memory. At the same time, caches introduce imprecision in ...
Huping Ding, Yun Liang, Tulika Mitra