The instruction cache is a popular target for optimizations of microprocessor-based systems because of the cache’s high impact on system performance and power, and because of th...
VLIW architectures are popular in embedded systems because they offer high-performance processing at low cost and energy. The major problem with traditional VLIW designs is that t...
Hongtao Zhong, Kevin Fan, Scott A. Mahlke, Michael...
: This project involves the design of a CMOS RF RMS Detector that converts the RMS voltage amplitude of an RF signal to a DC voltage. Its high input impedance and small area make i...
Alberto Valdes-Garcia, Radhika Venkatasubramanian,...
Portable embedded systems are being driven by consumer demands to be thermally efficient, perform faster, and have longer battery life. To design such a system, various hardware un...
In recent years, power consumption has become a critical concern for many VLSI systems. Whereas several case studies demonstrate that technology-, layout-, and gate-level technique...
Dan Crisu, Sorin Cotofana, Stamatis Vassiliadis, P...