Rising development costs motivate companies to design fewer systems-on-chip, but to make each one they do design more flexible and programmable. Doing so makes it possible to reuse designs to take ...

Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) is a way of improving the performance of a processor by executing operations simultaneously. Modern processors generally have an abundance of execution ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

A technical paper titled “Energy-Efficient Exposed Datapath Architecture With a RISC-V Instruction Set Mode” was published by researchers at Tampere University. “Transport triggered architectures ...

You only need to validate one core of a CMP design. So if that core is simpler, validation is easier. And you have to worry about the rest of the logic no matter what your core design is. You dont get ...

Designers looking to incorporate embedded DSPs in their SoCs have at least three options. They could try a general-purpose fixed DSP even though it may not particularly suit their application. Or, ...