With fast 3D graphics becoming more and more available even on low end platforms, the focus in developing new graphics hardware is beginning to shift towards higher quality render...
Router microarchitecture plays a central role in the performance of an on-chip network (NoC). Buffers are needed in routers to house incoming flits which cannot be immediately forw...
Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam, Vassos Soteriou, Bill Lin,...
Vector extensions for general purpose processors are an efficient feature to address the growing performance demand of multimedia and computer vision applications. Embedded proces...
Tarik Saidani, Joel Falcou, Lionel Lacassagne, Sam...
Clock meshes are extremely effective at filtering clock skew from environmental and process variations. For this reason, clock meshes are used in most high performance designs. Ho...
There is a strong need now for compilers of embedded systems to find effective ways of optimizing series of loop-nests, wherein majority of the memory references occur in the fo...
Javed Absar, Min Li, Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambre...