The recent switch to parallel microprocessors is a milestone in the history of computing.
Industry has laid out a roadmap for multicore designs that preserves the programming …

Heterogeneous reconfigurable systems provide drastically higher performance and lower
power consumption than traditional CPU-centric systems. Moreover, they do it at much lower …

Growing transistor counts, limited power budgets, and the breakdown of voltage scaling are
currently conspiring to create a utilization wall that limits the fraction of a chip that can run at …

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple
processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) …

Many commercial processors now offer the possibility of extending their instruction set for a
specific application---that is, to introduce customised functional units. There is a need to …

Transistor density continues to increase exponentially, but power dissipation per transistor is
improving only slightly with each generation of Moore's law. Given the constant chip-level …

This paper describes a computer architecture, Spatial Computation (SC), which is based on
the translation of high-level language programs directly into hardware structures. SC …

Efficient design of embedded processors plays a critical role in embedded systems design.
Processor description languages and their associated specification, exploration and rapid …

The extension of a given instruction-set with specialized instructions has become a common
technique used to speed up the execution of applications. By identifying computationally …

Efficiency and flexibility are critical, but often conflicting, design goals in embedded system
design. The recent emergence of extensible processors promises a favorable tradeoff …