Energy consumption is of significant concern in battery operated embedded systems. In the processors of such systems, the instruction cache consumes a significant fraction of the ...
Instruction set simulators are indispensable tools for the architectural exploration and verification of embedded systems. Different techniques have recently been proposed to spe...
SIMD extension is one of the most common and effective technique to exploit data-level parallelism in today’s processor designs. However, the performance of SIMD architectures i...
The register file is a power-hungry device in modern architectures. Current research on compiler technology and computer architectures encourages the implementation of larger dev...
This paper presents an approach for integrating fault-tolerance techniques into microprocessors by utilizing instruction redundancy as well as time redundancy. Smaller and smaller...