The bus that connects processors to memory is known to be a major architectural bottleneck in SMPs. However, both software and scheduling policies for these systems generally focu...
Christos D. Antonopoulos, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulo...
This paper presents the genesis of RoboX. This tour guide robot has been built from the scratch based on the experience of the Autonomous Systems Lab. The production of 11 of thos...
Nicola Tomatis, Gregoire Terrien, Ralph Piguet, Da...
This paper investigates how dynamic branch prediction in a microprocessor affects the predictability of execution time for software running on that processor. By means of experim...
In an embedded system, the cost of storing a program onchip can be as high as the cost of a microprocessor. Compressing an application’s code to reduce the amount of memory requ...
Jeremy Lau, Stefan Schoenmackers, Timothy Sherwood...
As the technology for high-speed networks has evolved over the last decade, the interconnection of commodity computers (e.g., PCs and workstations) at gigabit rates has become a re...
Mark Baker, Paul A. Farrell, Hong Ong, Stephen L. ...