Canal Corretger, Ramon (Date of defense: 2004-06-14)
The scaling of silicon technology has been ongoing for over forty years. We are on the way to commercializing devices having a minimum feature size of one-tenth of a micron. The push for miniaturization ...
Salamí San Juan, Esther (Date of defense: 2007-06-01)
The growing interest that multimedia processing has experimented during the last decade is motivating processor designers to reconsider which execution paradigms are the most appropriate for general-purpose ...
Vujic, Nikola (Date of defense: 2012-06-05)
Despite the fact that the most viable L1 memories in processors are caches, on-chip local memories have been a great topic of consideration lately. Local memories are an interesting design option due ...