This book is concerned with the improvement of the programming experience of today's and
upcoming embedded systems in the multimedia and wireless communication domains. In …

This paper evaluates the viability of user-level software management of a hybrid
DRAM/NVM main memory system. We propose an operating system (OS) and programming …

Extracting data dependences from programs serves as the foundation of many program
analysis and transformation methods, including automatic parallelization, runtime …

The triumphant spread of multicore processors over the past decade increases the pressure
on software developers to exploit the growing amount of parallelism available in the …

Since the 'free lunch'of processor performance is over, parallelism has become the new
trend in hardware and architecture design. However, parallel resources deployed in data …

Increasingly large amounts of data are stored in main memory of data center servers.
However, DRAM-based memory is an important consumer of energy and is unlikely to scale …

Execution-driven data dependence profiling has gained significant interest as a tool to
compensate the weakness of static data dependence analysis. Although such dependence …

The increasing software content in current and future embedded systems has forced
academia and industry to devise new programming methodologies. Only with new methods …

Task-based libraries such as Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) provide higher levels of
abstraction than threads for parallel programming. Work remains, however, to determine …

Retrofitting existing software for the increasingly dominant multicore microprocessors has a
strong appeal from the economic point of view. One of the key issues in such an effort is to …