Caches are designed to provide the best tradeoff between access speed and capacity for a set of target applications. Unfortunately, different applications, and even different phas...
Multimedia and communication algorithms from embedded system domain often make extensive use of floating-point arithmetic. Due to the complexity and expense of the floating-poin...
This paper describes a novel methodology for high performance asynchronous design based on timed circuits and on CAD support for their synthesis using Relative Timing. This method...
Ken S. Stevens, Shai Rotem, Steven M. Burns, Jordi...
Reconfigurable hardware has the potential for significant performance improvements by providing support for application−specific operations. We report our experience with Chimae...
Zhi Alex Ye, Andreas Moshovos, Scott Hauck, Prithv...
Hyperthreaded(HT) and simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are now available in commodity workstations and servers. This technology is designed to increase throughput by ex...
Yun Zhang, Mihai Burcea, Victor Cheng, Ron Ho, Mic...