Due to their high volume, general-purpose processors, and now chip multiprocessors
(CMPs), are much more cost effective than ASICs, but lag significantly in terms of …

This paper focuses on the trade-off between flexibility and efficiency in specialized
computing. We observe that specialized units achieve most of their efficiency gains by tuning …

Cloud services are becoming increasingly globalized and data-center workloads are
expanding exponentially. GPU and FPGA-based clouds have illustrated improvements in …

Policy-based data management enables the creation of community-specific collections.
Every collection is created for a purpose. The purpose defines the set of properties that will …

This dissertation describes Elm, an efficient programmable system for high-performance
embedded applications. Elm is significantly more efficient than conventional embedded …

The problem of automatically generating hardware modules from high level application
representations has been at the forefront of EDA research during the last few years. In this …

Building hardware prototypes for computer architecture research is challenging.
Unfortunately, development of the required software tools (compilers, debuggers, runtime) is …

Since the end of Dennard scaling in the early 2000s, improving the energy efficiency of
computation has been the main concern of the research community and industry. The large …

With transistor scaling nearing atomic dimensions and leakage power dissipation imposing
strict energy limitations, it has become increasingly difficult to improve energy efficiency in …

With transistor scaling nearing atomic dimensions and leakage power dissipation imposing
strict energy limitations, it has become increasingly difficult to improve energy efficiency in …