Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
April 2015
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: The Specialization Trend in Computer Hardware
Specialization improves energy-efficiency in computing but only makes economic sense if there is significant demand. A balance can often be found by designing application-domain-specific components that have a degree of programmability…
From Communications of the ACM
Convolution Engine: Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Specialized Computing
We present the Convolution Engine (CE) — a programmable processor specialized for the convolution-like data-flow prevalent in computational photography, computer vision, and video processing.