Abstract. This paper presents a case study on retrospective verication of the Linux Virtual File System (VFS), which is aimed at checking for violations of API usage rules and mem...
Fetching instructions from a set-associative cache in an embedded processor can consume a large amount of energy due to the tag checks performed. Recent proposals to address this ...
Timothy M. Jones, Sandro Bartolini, Bruno De Bus, ...
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes...
Abstract: We present a new approach that uses compilerdirected fault-injection for coverage testing of recovery code in Internet services to evaluate their robustness to operating ...
Chen Fu, Richard P. Martin, Kiran Nagaraja, Thu D....
Abstract. This paper explores using information about program branch probabilities to optimise reconfigurable designs. The basic premise is to promote utilization by dedicating mo...