Rapid and low-cost context-switch through embedded processor customization for real-time and control applications

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 352-357

  Zhou, Xiangrong ^a   Petrov, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; REAL TIME CONTROL;

CONTROL APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTATION; PERFORMANCES; REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM (RTOS);

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 34547193880     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146909.1147001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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