Program code in a computer system can be altered either by malicious security attacks or by various faults in microprocessors. At the instruction level, all code modifications are ...
Performance of applications can be boosted by executing application-specific Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) on a specialized hardware coupled with a processor core. Many commer...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
With the increased clock frequency of modern, high-performance processors over 500 MHz, in some cases, limiting the power dissipation has become the most stringent design target. ...
Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli, Alberto Macii, E...
Configurable processors are becoming increasingly popular for modern embedded systems (especially for the field-programmable system-on-a-chip). While steady progress has been made...
Jason Cong, Yiping Fan, Guoling Han, Ashok Jaganna...
Extensible processors, which allow customization for an application domain by extending the core instruction set architecture, are becoming increasingly popular for embedded syste...