The scaling of microchip technologies has enabled large scale systems-on-chip (SoC).
Network-on-chip (NoC) research addresses global communication in SoC, involving (i) a …

The third edition of this classic tutorial and reference on procedural texturing and modeling
is thoroughly updated to meet the needs of today's 3D graphics professionals and students …

We characterize high-performance streaming applications as a new and distinct domain of
programs that is becoming increasingly important. The StreamIt language provides novel …

The bandwidth and latency of a memory system are strongly dependent on the manner in
which accesses interact with the “3-D” structure of banks, rows, and columns characteristic of …

Recent advances in graphics processing units (GPUs) have resulted in massively parallel
hardware that is easily programmable and widely available in commodity desktop computer …

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 …

This paper describes the polymorphous TRIPS architecture which can be configured for
different granularities and types of parallelism. TRIPS contains mechanisms that enable the …

Trends in VLSI technology scaling demand that future computing devices be narrowly
focused to achieve high performance and high efficiency, yet also target the high volumes …

Microprocessor designs are on the verge of a post-RISC era in which companies must
introduce new ISAs to address the challenges that modern CMOS technologies pose while …

The Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture, supported by various high-
performance computing platforms, efficiently utilizes data-level parallelism. The SIMD model …