ATOM: a system for building customized program analysis tools
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EEL: machine-independent executable editing
PLDI '95 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1995 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Hot cold optimization of large Windows/NT applications
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System support for automatic profiling and optimization
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Fine-grained dynamic instrumentation of commodity operating system kernels
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DELI: a new run-time control point
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Retargetable and reconfigurable software dynamic translation
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DSPTune: A Performance Evaluation Toolset for the SHARC Signal Processor
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Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation
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An API for Runtime Code Patching
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Efficient, transparent, and comprehensive runtime code manipulation
Efficient, transparent, and comprehensive runtime code manipulation
A Dynamic Compilation Framework for Controlling Microprocessor Energy and Performance
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A dynamic binary instrumentation engine for the ARM architecture
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Valgrind: a framework for heavyweight dynamic binary instrumentation
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Instrumentation and optimization of Win32/intel executables using Etch
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While a large number of program profiling and instrumentation tools have been developed to support hardware and software analysis on general purpose systems, there is a general lack of sophisticated tools available for embedded architectures. Embedded systems are sensitive to performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and software inefficiencies. There is a growing need to develop more sophisticated profiling and instrumentation tools in this rapidly growing design space. In this paper we describe, DSPInst, a binary instrumentation tool for the Analog Device's Blackfin family of Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). DSPInst provides for fine-grained control over the execution of programs. Instrumentation tool users are able to gain transparent access to the processor and memory state at instruction boundaries, without perturbing the architected program state. DSPInst provides a platform for building a wide range of customized analysis tools at an instruction level granularity. To demonstrate the utility of this toolset, we provide an example analysis and optimization tool that performs dynamic voltage and frequency scaling to balance performance and power.