This paper introduces a method for improving program run-time performance by gathering
work in an application and executing it efficiently in an integrated thread. Our methods …

Many wireless sensor nodes (motes) interface with slow peripheral devices, requiring the
processor to wait. These delays waste time, energy and power, which are valuable but …

Embedded systems require control of many concurrent real-time activities, leading to system
designs which feature multiple hardware peripherals with each providing a specific …

The overhead of context-switching limits efficient scheduling of multiple concurrent threads
on a uniprocessor when real-time requirements exist. Existing software thread integration …

In recent years the functional decomposition has found an application in many fields of
modern engineering and science, such as combinational and sequential logic synthesis for …

This paper makes two contributions to Asynchronous Software Thread Integration (ASTI).
First, it presents methods to calculate worst-case secondary thread performance statically …

The aim of this thesis is to aid in the development of the RAPTEX project. The RAPTEX
project deals with designing efficient communication protocols for underwater telemetry and …

Multimedia applications require a significantly higher level of performance than previous
workloads of embedded systems. They have driven digital signal processor (DSP) makers to …

Software thread integration (STI) helps in hardware to software migration by enabling
integration of two independent software threads, which enables execution of the integrated …

Multimedia applications require a significantly higher level of performance than previous
workloads of embedded systems. They have driven digital signal processor (DSP) makers to …