In this work we present an initial performance evaluation of Intel's latest, secondgeneration quad-core processor, Nehalem, and provide a comparison to first-generation AMD a...
Kevin J. Barker, Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Darren ...
Networking applications, such as VPN and content filtering, demand extra computing power in order to meet the throughput requirement nowadays. In addition to pure ASIC solutions, ...
Semiconductor manufacturers aim at deliver new devices within shorter times in order to gain market shares. First silicon debug is an important issue in order to minimize the time...
Paolo Bernardi, Michelangelo Grosso, Maurizio Reba...
This paper describes our experience to date and current plans for a senior-level microelectronics laboratory course on hardware/software codesign. The course utilizes an open-sour...
Roger D. Chamberlain, John W. Lockwood, Saurabh Ga...
In this paper, we describe the organization and microarchitecture of MT-MB, a configurable implementation of the Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor that supports multithreading. Usi...