The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
In this paper, we present a proposal for a UML profile called `Embedded UML'. Embedded UML represents a synthesis of various ideas in the real-time UML community, and concept...
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hu...
The issue logic of a superscalar processor dissipates a large amount of static and dynamic power. Furthermore, its power density makes it a hot-spot requiring expensive cooling sy...
Traditional data-oriented programming languages such as dataflow s and stream languages provide a natural abstraction for parallel programming. In these languages, a developer fo...