Swarm testing is a novel and inexpensive way to improve the diversity of test cases generated during random testing. Increased diversity leads to improved coverage and fault detec...
Alex Groce, Chaoqiang Zhang, Eric Eide, Yang Chen,...
Application specific instruction-set processors combine an efficient general purpose core with special purpose functionality that is tailored to a particular application domain. ...
Uwe Kastens, Dinh Khoi Le, Adrian Slowik, Michael ...
Register bypassing is a powerful and widely used feature in modern processors to eliminate certain data hazards. Although complete bypassing is ideal for performance, bypassing ha...
Aviral Shrivastava, Eugene Earlie, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
Accelerating program performance via SIMD vector units is very common in modern processors, as evidenced by the use of SSE, MMX, VSE, and VSX SIMD instructions in multimedia, scien...
Computer architects are constantly faced with the need to improve performance and increase the efficiency of computation in their designs. To this end, it is increasingly common ...
Nathan Clark, Amir Hormati, Scott A. Mahlke, Sami ...