Soft-core programmable processors on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can be custom synthesized to instantiate only those hardware units, such as multipliers and floating-po...
David Sheldon, Rakesh Kumar, Frank Vahid, Dean M. ...
Our work addresses protection of hardware IP at the mask level with the goal of preventing unauthorized manufacturing. The proposed protocol based on chip locking and activation i...
Application-specific instruction set processors are the core of nowadays embedded systems. Therefore, the designers need to have powerful tools for the processor design. The tools...
Zdenek Prikryl, Jakub Kroustek, Tomas Hruska, Dusa...
Embedded processors have been increasingly exploiting hardware parallelism. Vector units, multiple processors or cores, hyper-threading, special-purpose accelerators such as DSPs ...
Arun Kejariwal, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Alexandru...
O ptimizing embedded applications using a compiler can generally be broken down into two major categories: hand-optimizing code to take advantage of a particular processor's ...