An effective method for reducing the effect of load latency in modern processors is data prefetching. One form of data prefetching, stream buffers, has been shown to be particular...
While technology is delivering increasingly sophisticated and powerful chip designs, it is also imposing alarmingly high energy requirements on the chips. One way to address this ...
Michael C. Huang, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, Jose...
This paper demonstrates how an Instruction Path Coprocessor (I-COP) can be efficiently implemented using the PipeRench reconfigurable architecture. An I-COP is a programmable on-c...
Yuan C. Chou, Pazhani Pillai, Herman Schmit, John ...
The popularity of the Internet and the emergence of broadband access networks is fueling the development of communications processors -- devices that integrate processing, network...
Charles D. Cranor, R. Gopalakrishnan, Peter Z. Onu...
Secure processor architecture enables tamper-proof protection on software that addresses many difficult security problems such as reverse-engineering prevention, trusted computing...