Increasing Energy Efficiency of Embedded Systems by Application-Specific Memory Hierarchy Generation

IEEE Design and Test of Computers

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 74-85

  Benini, Luca ^b   Macii, Alberto ^b   Macii, Enrico ^a   Poncino, Massimo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001912576     PISSN: 07407475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/54.844336     Document Type: Article

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