Carlos Tavares, Oskar Mencer and Wayne Luk - Imperial College London
			Accelerating assembly-level programs
Various techniques have been developed for partitioning an application into
two parts: software running on an embedded processor, and hardware in a
co-processor. Co-processors have been shown to be effective in accelerating
applications for embedded systems. The embedded processor in such
systems are often based on Reduced Instruction Set architectures. Recently
system-on-chips based on Complex Instruction Set architectures such as x86
have been proposed. This talk addresses the challenges in accelerating
assembly-level programs with complex instructions, making use of both static
and dynamic analysis. We introduce an infrastructure to support assemblylevel
program manipulation, and describe its facilities such as those for
instruction-level instrumentation