To accomplish frequent, simple tasks with high efficiency, it is necessary to leverage low-power, microcontroller-like processors that are increasingly available on mobile systems...
Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Zhen Wang, Robert LiKamWa, Lin ...
In hardware - software codesign paradigm often a performance estimation of the system is needed for hardware - software partitioning. The tremendous growth of application specific...
Reducing power, on both a per cycle basis and as the total energy used over the lifetime of an application, has become more important as small and embedded devices become increasi...
Networking applications, such as VPN and content filtering, demand extra computing power in order to meet the throughput requirement nowadays. In addition to pure ASIC solutions, ...
Power density has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent processor generations resulting in high on-chip temperature. Higher temperature results in poor reliability and inc...