Power consumption is a troublesome design constraint for emergent systems such as IBM’s BlueGene /L. If current trends continue, future petaflop systems will require 100 megawat...
Abstract. In order to address the problems faced in the wireless communications domain, picoChip has devised the picoArrayTM . The picoArrayTM is a tiled-processor architecture, co...
Gajinder Panesar, Daniel Towner, Andrew Duller, Al...
The increasing demand for more bandwidth and the increased application variety fuel the need for high performance network processors. A simple but highly repetitive task performed...
An emerging trend in processor design is the addition of short vector instructions to general-purpose and embedded ISAs. Frequently, these extensions are employed using traditiona...
Samuel Larsen, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasin...
Advanced bit manipulation operations are not efficiently supported by commodity word-oriented microprocessors. Programming tricks are typically devised to shorten the long sequence...