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2009
ACM
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2009
ACM
Energy consumption is of significant concern in battery operated embedded systems. In the processors of such systems, the instruction cache consumes a significant fraction of the ...
208
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DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Traditionally, synchronous languages, such as Esterel, have been compiled into hardware, where timing analysis is relatively easy. When compiled into software ? e.g., into sequent...
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2009
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
At runtime, an embedded control system can switch between alternative functional modes. In each mode, the system operates by using a schedule and controllers that exploit the avai...
169
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2009
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Computational complexity has been the primary challenge of many VLSI CAD applications. The emerging multicore and manycore microprocessors have the potential to offer scalable perf...
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2009
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
In many Systems on Chips (SoCs), the cores are clustered in to voltage islands. When cores in an island are unused, the entire island can be shutdown to reduce the leakage power c...