In this paper we propose the Merge framework, a general purpose programming model for heterogeneous multi-core systems. The Merge framework replaces current ad hoc approaches to p...
Michael D. Linderman, Jamison D. Collins, Hong Wan...
This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "return-oriented programming" -- a technique by which WX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully cr...
Erik Buchanan, Ryan Roemer, Hovav Shacham, Stefan ...
Computer security becomes increasingly important with continual growth of the number of interconnected computing platforms. Moreover, as capabilities of embedded processors increa...
Milena Milenkovic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil Jov...
This paper presents a method of constructing pre-routed FPGA cores which lays the foundations for a rapid system construction framework for dynamically reconfigurable computing sy...
The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...