—During post-silicon processor debugging, we need to frequently capture and dump out the internal state of the processor. Since internal state constitutes all memory elements, th...
Anant Vishnoi, Preeti Ranjan Panda, M. Balakrishna...
Due to the large contribution of the memory subsystem to total system power, the memory subsystem is highly amenable to customization for reduced power/energy and/or improved perf...
Pablo Viana, Ann Gordon-Ross, Edna Barros, Frank V...
With shrinking feature size of silicon fabrication technology, architects are putting more and more logic into a single die. While one might opt to use these transistors for build...
Lin Li, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mahmut T. Kandemi...
Today, mobile smartphones are expected to be able to run the same complex, memory-intensive applications that were originally designed and coded for general-purpose processors. Ho...
— Next generation multimedia mobile phones that use the high bandwidth 3G cellular radio network consume more power. Multimedia algorithms such as speech, video transcodecs have ...