Traditional fault-tolerance techniques typically utilize resources ineffectively because they
cannot adapt to the changing reliability and performance demands of a system. This paper …

Effective use of the memory hierarchy is critical for achieving high performance on
embedded systems. We focus on the class of streaming applications, which is increasingly …

The design of a real-time architecture is governed by a trade-off between analyzability
necessary for real-time formalism and performance demanded by high-end embedded …

Two long-standing open problems exist on the fringe of complexity theory and
cryptography:(1) Does there exist a reduction from an NP-complete problem to a one-way …

A number of compute-intensive applications suffer from performance loss due to the lack of
instruction-level parallelism in sequences of dependent instructions. This is particularly …

This dissertation introduces software thread integration (STI) and its use for migrating
functions from hardware to software (HSM). STI interleaves multiple software threads at the …

A coarse-grain multithreaded processor can effectively hide long memory latencies by
quickly switching to an alternate task when the active task issues a memory request …

Introduces thread integration, a new method of providing low-cost concurrency for
microcontrollers and microprocessors. This post-pass compiler technology effectively …

Software thread integration (STI) is a compilation technique which enables the efficient use
of an application's fine-grain idle time on generic processors without special hardware …

We present methods to add efficient cryptographic support to low-performance embedded
processors with embedded networks (eg sensor networks). Software thread integration (STI) …