The determination of upper bounds on execution times, commonly called worst-case
execution times (WCETs), is a necessary step in the development and validation process for …

Computer architecture simulators play an important role in advancing computer architecture
research. With wider research directions and the increased number of simulators that have …

Hardware specialization, in the form of accelerators that provide custom datapath and
control for specific algorithms and applications, promises impressive performance and …

With increasing clock frequencies and silicon integration, power aware computing has
become a critical concern in the design of embedded processors and systems-on-chip. One …

Until very recently, microprocessor designs were computation-centric. On-chip
communication was frequently ignored. This was because of fast, single-cycle on-chip …

The Wisconsin Multifacet Project has created a simulation toolset to characterize and
evaluate the performance of multiprocessor hardware systems commonly used as database …

With the end of both Dennard's scaling and Moore's law, computer users and researchers
are aggressively exploring alternative forms of computing in order to continue the …

Three-dimensional integration enables stacking memory directly on top of a microprocessor,
thereby significantly reducing wire delay between the two. Previous studies have examined …

This paper introduces the Graphite open-source distributed parallel multicore simulator
infrastructure. Graphite is designed from the ground up for exploration of future multi-core …

As technology scales, interconnects have become a major performance bottleneck and a
major source of power consumption for microprocessors. Increasing interconnect costs …