Per-core local (scratchpad) memories allow direct inter-core communication, with latency and energy advantages over coherent cache-based communication, especially as CMP architect...
Stamatis G. Kavadias, Manolis Katevenis, Michail Z...
This work is motivated by a strong market demand in the replacement of NOR flash memory with NAND flash memory to cut down the cost in many embedded-system designs, such as mobi...
Chip-multiprocessors are quickly becoming popular in embedded systems. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded appli...
Njuguna Njoroge, Jared Casper, Sewook Wee, Yuriy T...
There is a growing need for accurate power models at the system level. Memory structures such as caches, Branch Target Buffers (BTBs), and register files occupy significant area i...
Mahesh Mamidipaka, Kamal S. Khouri, Nikil D. Dutt,...
Silent store instructions write values that exactly match the values that are already stored at the memory address that is being written. A recent study reveals that significant ...