Accurate modeling of delay, power, and area of interconnections early in the design phase is crucial for effective system-level optimization. Models presently used in system-level...
Luca P. Carloni, Andrew B. Kahng, Swamy Muddu, Ale...
Parallel and concurrent garbage collectors are increasingly employed by managed runtime environments (MREs) to maintain scalability, as multi-core architectures and multi-threaded...
Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...
Ravi Bhargava, Ben Serebrin, Francesco Spadini, Sr...
Commodity operating systems entrusted with securing sensitive data are remarkably large and complex, and consequently, frequently prone to compromise. To address this limitation, ...
Xiaoxin Chen, Tal Garfinkel, E. Christopher Lewis,...
Device drivers commonly execute in the kernel to achieve high performance and easy access to kernel services. However, this comes at the price of decreased reliability and increas...
Vinod Ganapathy, Matthew J. Renzelmann, Arini Bala...