Access/execute architectures have several advantages over more traditional architectures. Because address generation and memory access are decoupled from operand use, memory laten...
Modern computers have taken advantage of the instruction-level parallelism (ILP) available in programs with advances in both architecture and compiler design. Unfortunately, large...
Many instructors use program runtimes to illustrate and reinforce algorithm complexity concepts. Hardware, operating system and compilers have historically influenced runtime resu...
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
This paper introduces the notion of a Flexible Instruction Processor (FIP) for systematic customisation of instruction processor design and implementation. The features of our app...