Articles on embedded microprocessors

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Improving the Performance of  Embedded  Superscalar  Microprocessors  by Adding Partial Pipelines

Improving the Performance of Embedded Superscalar Microprocessors by Adding Partial Pipelines

This paper introduces adding a "Partial" pipeline to a base embedded superscalar microprocessor implementation to achieve cost effective performance improvements. This method is exemplified... Read more

Dec 4, 2008

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What is a Smart Card?

What is a Smart Card?

A smart card is a card that is embedded with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip with... Read more

Aug 14, 2009

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Design of a DSP Unit for 32-Bit  Embedded  EISC  Microprocessor

Design of a DSP Unit for 32-Bit Embedded EISC Microprocessor

...hardware cost and fast DSP unit for 32-bit embedded EISC (Expanded Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor. The DSP unit operates as a functional unit of... Read more

Dec 4, 2008

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MIS: Mobile Intelligent System

MIS: Mobile Intelligent System

...System (MIS). The system is based on an embedded Co-Design FPGA architecture, including a microprocessor core and several dedicated IP (Intellectual Property). Real... Read more

Dec 23, 2009

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Evaluation of the Raw  Microprocessor : An Exposed-Wire-Delay Architecture for ILP and Streams

Evaluation of the Raw Microprocessor: An Exposed-Wire-Delay Architecture for ILP and Streams

...Raw microprocessor. Raw addresses the challenge of building a general-purpose architecture that performs well on a larger class of stream and embedded computing... Read more

Dec 4, 2008

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Efficient Utilization of Scratch-Pad Memory in  Embedded  Processor Applications

Efficient Utilization of Scratch-Pad Memory in Embedded Processor Applications

...on-chip memory space is extremely important in modern embedded system applications based on microprocessor cores. In addition to a data cache that interfaces... Read more

Dec 4, 2008

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Teaching Software Engineering for  Embedded  Systems: An Experience Report From the Manaus Research and Development Pole

Teaching Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: An Experience Report From the Manaus Research and Development Pole

The number of microprocessors and microcontrollers being applied to...training program specially created for embedded systems organized by CEFET-AM... Read more

Nov 30, 2008

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Porting Linux to the M32R Processor

Porting Linux to the M32R Processor

...the Renesas M32R processor, which is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor designed for embedded systems, and with an on-chip-multiprocessor feature. So far... Read more

Oct 22, 2008

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Energy Based Analysis of  Embedded   Microprocessor  Cache Design

Energy Based Analysis of Embedded Microprocessor Cache Design

This paper focuses on performing a broad exploration of the embedded processor cache design space in order to determine the energy consumption and... Read more

Dec 4, 2008

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The Design and Performance of Real-Time Java Middleware

The Design and Performance of Real-Time Java Middleware

Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for real-time and embedded applications. Since the behavior of these applications is... Read more

Jan 3, 2009