Duric, Milovan (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)
The worldwide utilization of mobile devices makes the segment of low power mobile processors leading in the entire computer industry. Customers demand low-cost, high-performance and energy-efficient ...
Siddiqui, Muhammad Shuaib (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
Internet security poses complex challenges at different levels, where even the basic requirement of availability of Internet connectivity becomes a conundrum sometimes. Recent Internet service disruption ...
Asensio Garcia, Adrian (Date of defense: 2016-06-10)
In the Internet of services, information technology (IT) infrastructure providers play a critical role in making the services accessible to end-users. IT infrastructure providers host platforms and ...
Fischer e Silva, Renan (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
Energy efficiency and performance improvements have been two of the major concerns of current Data Centers. With the advent of Big Data, more information is generated year after year, and even the most ...
Salami, Behzad (Date of defense: 2018-11-19)
In this work, we evaluate aggressive undervolting, i.e., voltage underscaling below the nominal level to reduce the energy consumption of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Usually, voltage guardbands ...
Ratković, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
Vector processors are a very promising solution for mobile devices and servers due to their inherently energy-efficient way of exploiting datalevel parallelism. While vector processors succeeded in the ...
Kestor, Gökçen (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
Chip Multithreading (CMT) processors promise to deliver higher performance by running more than one stream of instructions in parallel. To exploit CMT's capabilities, programmers have to parallelize ...
Santamaría Barnadas, Eduard (Date of defense: 2010-06-15)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are rapidly gaining attention due to the increasing potential of their applications in the civil domain. UAS can provide great value performing environmental applications, ...
López Muñoz, Pedro (Date of defense: 2014-03-17)
Nowadays, we are reaching a point where further improving single thread performance can only be done at the expenses of significantly increasing power consumption. Thus, multi-core chips have been adopted ...
Deb, Abhishek (Date of defense: 2012-05-03)
In this thesis we have explored the co-designed paradigm to show alternative processor design points. Specifically, we have provided HW/SW mechanisms for instruction fusion, issue and commit for modern ...