The open-source and community-supported gem5 simulator is one of the most popular tools
for computer architecture research. This simulation infrastructure allows researchers to …

It has become increasingly difficult to understand the complex interactions between modern
applications and main memory, composed of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) …

Optimizing communication performance is imperative for large-scale computing because
communication overheads limit the strong scalability of parallel applications. Today's …

Full-system simulation frameworks such as gem5 are used extensively to evaluate research
ideas and for design-space exploration. Moreover, energy-efficiency has become the key …

Single-ISA heterogeneous multicore processors have gained increasing popularity with the
introduction of recent technologies such as ARM big. LITTLE. These processors offer …

Energy consumption is the major factor limiting performance in embedded systems. In
addition, in the next generations of ICs, heat or energy constraints will not allow to power all …

Applications often communicate data that is non-contiguous in the send-or the receive-
buffer, eg, when exchanging a column of a matrix stored in row-major order. While non …

There is tremendous potential in solar energy to meet future electricity demands. Partial
shading (PS) and drift are two major problems that must be addressed simultaneously to …

Power‐efficient architectures have become the most important feature required for future
embedded systems. Modern designs, like those released on mobile devices, reveal that …

ARM CPUs are prevalent in embedded systems ranging from low-power IoT to reasonably
high-powered mobile phones and devices. Embedded SoCs integrate a number of …