Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is becoming increasingly widespread in portable devices. Due to harsh constraints on power, latency, and throughput in embedded environments, devel...
Sitij Agrawal, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
In this paper, we develop a new language construct to address one of the pitfalls of parallel programming: precise handling of events across parallel components. The construct, te...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins,...
We characterize high-performance streaming applications as a new and distinct domain of programs that is becoming increasingly important. The StreamIt language provides novel high-...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Saman P. Amarasi...
As multicore architectures gain widespread use, it becomes increasingly important to be able to harness their additional processing power to achieve higher performance. However, e...
David Zhang, Qiuyuan J. Li, Rodric Rabbah, Saman A...
Abstract. Stream programming is a promising way to expose concurrency to the compiler. A stream program is built from kernels that communicate only via point-to-point streams. The ...