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Hardware-Assisted Data Compression for Energy Minimization in Systems with Embedded Processors
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
LZW-Based Code Compression for VLIW Embedded Systems
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 3
A hamming distance based VLIW/EPIC code compression technique
Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
A post-compilation register reassignment technique for improving hamming distance code compression
Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
Data Compression: The Complete Reference
Data Compression: The Complete Reference
A bitmask-based code compression technique for embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
FBT: filled buffer technique to reduce code size for VLIW processors
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
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Compressing program code compiled for VLIW processors to reduce the amount of memory is a necessary means to decrease costs. The main disadvantage of any code compression technique is the system performance penalty because of the extra time required to decode the compressed instructions during run time. In this paper we improve the performance of decoding compressed instructions by using our novel compression technique (LICT: Left-uncompressed Instruction Technique) which can be used in conjunction with any compression algorithm. Furthermore, we adapt a new code compression approach called Burrows-Wheeler (BW) [9] which has been used before in data compression. It significantly reduces the code size compared to state-of-the-art approaches for VLIW processors. Using our LICT in conjunction with the BW algorithm improves the performance explicitly (2.5x) with little impact on the compression ratio (only 3% compression ratio loss).