Accelerating Software Pipelines Using Streaming Caches

The trend of increasing performance by parallelism is followed by the adoption of heterogeneous systems. In order to allow more fine-tuned balancing between used thread- and instruction level parallelism, the heterogeneous ρ-VEX platform was developed. Pipelining has been a part of microprocessor development for decades to increase throughput of...

Fingerprint Verification on the VEX Processor

The speed gap between a processor realized in Semi-custom ASIC technology and a processor realized in FPGA technology is narrowing. In processor design, the approach is to define the microarchitecture of the processor and to design and implement it for executing an application domain. In this thesis, we have investigated the approach to design a...