Traditional simulation-based energy estimation is not practical because the simulation time has increased from minutes and hours and weeks. Therefore, simulation assisted by speci...
Multicore architectures have been ruling the recent microprocessor design trend. This is due to different reasons: better performance, thread-level parallelism bounds in modern app...
Matteo Monchiero, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonzá...
Memory accesses account for a large percentage of total power in microprocessor-based embedded systems. The increasing use of microprocessor cores and synthesis, rather than prefa...
Modern high-end machines feature multiple processor packages, each of which contains multiple independent cores and integrated memory controllers connected directly to dedicated p...
Sven Auhagen, Lars Bergstrom, Matthew Fluet, John ...
A processor core, previously implemented in a 0.25m Al process, is redesigned for a 0.13m Cu process to create a dualcore processor with 1MB integrated L2 cache, offering an effic...
Toshinari Takayanagi, Jinuk Luke Shin, Bruce Petri...