The improvements in semiconductor technologies are gradually enabling extreme-scale
systems such as teradevices (ie, chips composed by 1000 billion of transistors), most likely …

Thanks to the improvements in semiconductor technologies, extreme-scale systems such as
teradevices (ie, composed by 1000 billion of transistors) will enable systems with 1000+ …

The continuous improvements offered by the silicon technology enables the integration of
always increasing number of cores on a single chip. Following this trend, it is expected to …

Given the constantly growing complexity of multi-core architectures, Design Space
Exploration (DSE) tools play an important role to evaluate different design options. In this …

In high-performance general-purpose workstations and servers, the workload can be
typically constituted of both sequential and parallel applications. Shared-bus shared …

The design of new computer systems always requires a strong simulation effort in order to
evaluate different design options. This is especially true if the system is to be produced at a …

In a multiprocessor system, process migration guarantees load balance between processors
but causes passive sharing, since private data blocks of a process can become resident in …

The infrastructure to support electronic commerce is one of the areas where more
processing power is needed. A multiprocessor system can offer advantages for running …

Traditionally, in the field of embedded systems low power consumption and low cost have
been always regarded as stringent specification constraints. In recent years, high …

Many software applications demanding a considerable computing power are moving
towards the field of embedded systems (and, in particular, hand‐held devices). A possible …