Empirical measurement of instruction level parallelism for four generations of ARM CPUs
Martin J. Johnson, Ken A. Hawick · 2013
Parallel computing at all levels is becoming important in all devices and not least in mobile and embedded systems. Many wireless, mobile and deployable devices make use of the ARM CPU and its variants. We report on investigations into measuring instruction level parallelism on the ARM processor and on characterising the fine grained parallelism of four generations of ARM cores. We discuss the implications for future applications that use such devices with parallelism and for the future of mobile computing device architectures.