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Summary: c 2005 by Ruchira Sasanka. All rights reserved.
ENERGY EFFICIENT SUPPORT FOR ALL LEVELS OF PARALLELISM
FOR COMPLEX MEDIA APPLICATIONS
BY
RUCHIRA SASANKA
B.S., University of Moratuwa, 1998
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
DISSERTATION
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
in the Graduate College of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Urbana, Illinois
Abstract
Real-time complex media applications are becoming increasingly common on general-purpose sys-
tems such as desktop, laptop, and handheld computers. However, real-time execution of such
complex media applications needs a considerable amount of processing power that often surpasses
the capabilities of current superscalar processors. Further, high performance processors are of-
ten constrained by power and energy consumption, especially in the mobile systems where media
applications have become popular.
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