EEL: machine-independent executable editing
PLDI '95 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1995 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Hardware-based profiling: an effective technique for profile-driven optimization
International Journal of Parallel Programming
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System support for automatic profiling and optimization
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
MICRO 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
ProfileMe: hardware support for instruction-level profiling on out-of-order processors
MICRO 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
A hardware-driven profiling scheme for identifying program hot spots to support runtime optimization
ISCA '99 Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Common-case computation: a high-level technique for power and performance optimization
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
ISLPED '99 Proceedings of the 1999 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Dynamo: a transparent dynamic optimization system
PLDI '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Performance analysis using the MIPS R10000 performance counters
Supercomputing '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Automatic source code specialization for energy reduction
ISLPED '01 Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Dynamic Binary Translation and Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Computers
CASES '01 Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
FX!32: A Profile-Directed Binary Translator
IEEE Micro
Pentium 4 Performance-Monitoring Features
IEEE Micro
Gprof: A call graph execution profiler
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A compiled accelerator for biological cell signaling simulations
FPGA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/SIGDA 12th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
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IBM Systems Journal
Optimized Generation of Data-Path from C Codes for FPGAs
Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
Automatic Performance Management in Component Based Software Systems
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Frequent Loop Detection Using Efficient Nonintrusive On-Chip Hardware
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
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CASES '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
Non-intrusive dynamic application profiling for multitasked applications
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Efficient hardware-based nonintrusive dynamic application profiling
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
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Application profiling - the process of monitoring an application to determine the frequency of execution within specific regions - is an essential step within the design process for many software and hardware systems. In this paper, we present an efficient innovative, non-intrusive dynamic application profiler (DAProf) capable of profiling an executing application by monitoring the application's short backwards branches and providing detailed profiling statistics for characterizing loop execution behavior. DAProf is ideally suited for hardware/software partitioning approaches in which detailed loop execution information is needed to provide accurate performance estimates. DAProf provides a profiling accuracy of greater than 90% with only an 11% area overhead compared to a small ARM9.