Compile time aanalysis for hardware transactional memory architectures

Transactional Memory is a parallel programming paradigm in which tasks are executed, in forms of transactions, concurrently by different resources in a system and resolve conflicts between them at run-time. Conflicts, caused by data dependencies, result in aborts and restarts of transactions, thus, degrading the performance of the system. In...

Porting the GCC Compiler to a VLIW Vector Processor

Applications run on embedded DSPs become increasingly complex, while the demands on speed and power continue to grow. One method of meeting these demands is to move some of the processor complexity from hardware to the compiler. This increases the importance of the role of the compiler. This thesis describes how we ported the Gnu Compiler...

Porting GCC to Exposed Pipeline VLIW Processors

EVP and TriMedia are embedded application processors targeted at mobile communication and multimedia domains. Both architectures originate from Philips Semiconductors and are currently developed by ST-Ericsson and NXP Semiconductors, respectively. Both processors have a VLIWarchitecture with an exposed pipeline. Such architectures impose...