High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers [electronic resource] : Second International Conference, HiPEAC 2007, Ghent, Belgium, January 28-30, 2007. Proceedings /

Invited Program -- Keynote: Insight, Not (Random) Numbers: An Embedded Perspective -- I Secure and Low-Power Embedded Memory Systems -- Compiler-Assisted Memory Encryption for Embedded Processors -- Leveraging High Performance Data Cache Techniques to Save Power in Embedded Systems -- Applying Decay to Reduce Dynamic Power in Set-Associative Caches -- II Architecture/Compiler Optimizations for Efficient Embedded Processing -- Virtual Registers: Reducing Register Pressure Without Enlarging the Register File -- Bounds Checking with Taint-Based Analysis -- Reducing Exit Stub Memory Consumption in Code Caches -- III Adaptive Microarchitectures -- Reducing Branch Misprediction Penalties Via Adaptive Pipeline Scaling -- Fetch Gating Control Through Speculative Instruction Window Weighting -- Dynamic Capacity-Speed Tradeoffs in SMT Processor Caches -- Branch History Matching: Branch Predictor Warmup for Sampled Simulation -- Sunflower : Full-System, Embedded Microarchitecture Evaluation -- Efficient Program Power Behavior Characterization -- Generation of Efficient Embedded Applications -- Performance/Energy Optimization of DSP Transforms on the XScale Processor -- Arx: A Toolset for the Efficient Simulation and Direct Synthesis of High-Performance Signal Processing Algorithms -- A Throughput-Driven Task Creation and Mapping for Network Processors -- Optimizations and Architectural Tradeoffs for Embedded Systems -- MiDataSets: Creating the Conditions for a More Realistic Evaluation of Iterative Optimization -- Evaluation of Offset Assignment Heuristics -- Customizing the Datapath and ISA of Soft VLIW Processors -- Instruction Set Extension Generation with Considering Physical Constraints.