Power dissipation and energy consumption became the primary design constraint for almost
all computer systems in the last 15 years. Both computer architects and circuit designers …

This paper identifies a new opportunity for improving the efficiency of a processor core:
memory access phases of programs. These are dynamic regions of programs where most of …

Dynamic software optimization methods are becoming increasingly popular for improving
software performance and power. The first step in dynamic optimization consists of detecting …

Most modern processors employ variable length, Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC)
instructions to reduce instruction fetch energy cost and bandwidth requirements. High …

Embedded systems commonly execute oneprogram for their lifetime. Designing embedded
systemarchitectures with configurable components, such thatthose components can be …

Current trends indicate that leakage energy consumption will be an important concern in
upcoming process technologies. In this paper, we propose a compiler-based leakage …

The performance gap between in-order (InO) and out-of-order (OoO) cores comes from the
ability to dynamically create highly optimized instruction issue schedules. In this work, we …

Modern embedded microprocessors use low power on-chip memories called scratch-pad
memories to store frequently executed instructions and data. Unlike traditional caches …

Traditionally, architectural innovations designed to boost single-threaded performance incur
overhead costs which significantly increase power consumption. In many cases the increase …

There exist many embedded applications such as those executing on set-top boxes,
wireless base stations, HDTV, and mobile handsets that are structured as nested loops and …