Abstract—Recent breakthroughs in circuit and process technology have enabled new usage models for non-volatile memory technologies such as Flash and phase change RAM (PCRAM) in t...
Scratchpad memory has been introduced as a replacement for cache memory as it improves the performance of certain embedded systems. Additionally, it has also been demonstrated tha...
Andhi Janapsatya, Aleksandar Ignjatovic, Sri Param...
The Instruction Register File (IRF) is an architectural extension for providing improved access to frequently occurring instructions. An optimizing compiler can exploit an IRF by ...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Wh...
Code compression, initially conceived as an effective technique to reduce code size in embedded systems, today also brings advantages in terms of performance and energy consumpti...
Richard E. Billo, Rodolfo Azevedo, Guido Araujo, P...
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin,...