Media-processing applications, such as signal processing, 2D and 3D graphics rendering, and image compression, are the dominant workloads in many embedded systems today. The real-...
Nader Ben Amor, Yannick Le Moullec, Jean-Philippe ...
New application-focused system-on-chip platforms motivate new application-specific processors. Configurable and extensible processor architectures offer the efficiency of tuned lo...
Albert Wang, Earl Killian, Dror E. Maydan, Chris R...
This paper presents a novel instruction encoding generation technique for use in architecture exploration for application specific processors. The underlying exploration methodolo...
Achim Nohl, Volker Greive, Gunnar Braun, Andreas H...
While hardware instruction caches are present in virtually all general-purpose and high-performance microprocessors today, many embedded processors use SRAM or scratchpad memories...
The advance in semiconductor technologies presents the serious problem of parameter variations. They affect threshold voltage of transistors and thus circuit delay has variability...