Exploring energy/performance tradeoffs in shared memory MPSoCs: Snoop-based cache coherence vs. software solutions

Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE '05

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 508-513

  Loghi, Mirko ^a   Poncino, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS; SHARED MEMORY; SINGLE-CHIP MULTI-PROCESSOR PLATFORMS; SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 33646932154     PISSN: 15301591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DATE.2005.148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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