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

Application-specific instruction set extensions are an effective way of improving the
performance of processors. Critical computation subgraphs can be accelerated by …

Application-specific extensions to the computational capabilities of a processor provide an
efficient mechanism to meet the growing performance and power demands of embedded …

Instruction set customization is an effective way to improve processor performance. Critical
portions of application data-flow graphs are collapsed for accelerated execution on …

Disabling communication in a multiprocessor fabric. The multiprocessor fabric may include a
plurality of processors and a plurality of communication elements and each of the plurality of …

Application-specific extensions to the computational capabilities of a processor provide an
efficient mechanism to meet the growing performance and power demands of embedded …

The emergence of multimedia and high-speed networks has expanded the class of
applications that combine the timing requirements of hard real-time applications with the …

Silicon compilers are often used in conjunction with Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(FPGAs) to deliver flexibility, fast prototy**, and accelerated time-to-market. Many of these …

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 …

Over the last years, we have witnessed the increased use of Application-Specific Instruction-
Set Processors (ASIPs). These ASIPs are processors that have a customizable instruction …