Instruction set customization accelerates the performance of applications by compressing the length of critical dependence paths and reducing the demands on processor resources. W...
Sami Yehia, Nathan Clark, Scott A. Mahlke, Kriszti...
Multilevel semantics has been proposed as a powerful architecture for semantic analysis. We propose a methodology that, while maintaining the generality of the multilevel approach...
Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini, Carlo Strappara...
A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's dependability. Dependability is a function of various system paramet...
Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad...
Economic incentives have driven the semiconductor industry to separate design from fabrication in recent years. This trend leads to potential vulnerabilities from untrusted circui...
Caches play an important role in embedded systems by bridging the performance gap between high speed processors and slow memory. At the same time, caches introduce imprecision in ...