Low power and/or energy consumption is a requirement not only in embedded systems that
run on batteries or have limited cooling capabilities, but also in desktop and mainframes …

Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) provides a method to improve resource uti-lization and
performance of superscalar CPUs by sharing key data-path components among multiple …

Cache memory plays a major role in memory hierarchy for improving the system
performance. Cache configuration includes cache size, associativity, block size …

Current embedded systems are specifically designed to run multimedia applications. These
applications have a big impact on both performance and energy consumption. Both metrics …

Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) has been a very popular design in improving resource
utilization by sharing key datapath components among multiple independent threads. When …

Since multicore architectures are becoming more popular, recent multicore optimizations
focus on energy consumption. In this paper, we focus on reducing the energy consumption …

Abstract Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) has been a very popular design in improving
resource utilization by sharing key datapath components among multiple independent …

Past studies use deterministic models to evaluate optimal cache configuration or to explore
its design space. However, with the increasing number of components present on a chip …

Cache memory has an important role in achieving system performance in multi-core
architecture. Finding the best suitable cache configuration for an application is a very …

A simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processor mixes multiple instruction streams in its
superscalar out-of-order execution core for higher throughput. To achieve this, a superscalar …