Scratchpads have been widely proposed as an alternative to caches for embedded systems. Advantages of scratchpads include reduced energy consumption in comparison to a cache and a...
Bitwise operations are commonly used in low-level systems code to access multiple data fields that have been packed into a single word. Program analysis tools that reason about s...
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, ...
Portable systems such as cell phones and portable media players commonly use non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) to hold all of their data and metadata, and larger systems can store metadata...
The procedures to collect information about users are well known in computer science till long time. They range from getting explicit information from users, required in order to ...