Designing and Optimizing the Fetch Unit for a RISC Core

Subject Areas : Journal of Computer & Robotics

Bahman Javadi ¹ , Mojtaba Shojaei ² , Mohammad Kazem Akbari ³ , Farnaz Irannejad ⁴

1 - Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 - Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
4 - Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2008-12-18 Accepted : 2009-09-21 Published : 2010-01-10

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