3 papers
cs.AR2014
Generating and evaluating application-specific hardware extensions
Nikolaos Kavvadias
Modern platform-based design involves the application-specific extension of embedded processors to fit customer requirements. To accomplish this task, the possibilities offered by…
cs.AR2014
Design space exploration tools for the ByoRISC configurable processor family
Nikolaos Kavvadias, Spiridon Nikolaidis
In this paper, the ByoRISC (Build your own RISC) configurable application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) family is presented. ByoRISCs, as vendor-independent cores, prov…
cs.AR2007
Hardware Support for Arbitrarily Complex Loop Structures in Embedded Applications
Nikolaos Kavvadias, Spiridon Nikolaidis
In this paper, the program control unit of an embedded RISC processor is enhanced with a novel zero-overhead loop controller (ZOLC) supporting arbitrary loop structures with multip…