Operating Systems provide services that are accessed by processes via mechanisms that involve a ring transition to transfer control to the kernel where the required function is pe...
— Architectures based on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors are an optimal choice in the attempt to obtain high performance levels in mobile devices. The effectiveness ...
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi,...
The design of appropriate communication architectures for complex Systems-on-Chip (SoC) is a challenging task. One promising alternative to solve these problems are Networks-on-Chi...
Holger Blume, Thorsten von Sydow, Daniel Becker, T...
The cache hierarchy design in existing SMT and superscalar processors is optimized for latency, but not for bandwidth. The size of the L1 data cache did not scale over the past dec...
Current-generation microprocessors are designed to process instructions with one and two source operands at equal cost. Handling two source operands requires multiple ports for ea...