David B. Whalley

Alen Bardizbanyan, Peter Gavin, David B. Whalley, Magnus Själander, Per Larsson-Edefors, Sally A. McKee, Per Stenström: Improving data access efficiency by using a tagless access buffer (TAB). CGO 2013: 1-11

Ian Finlayson, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: An Overview of Static Pipelining. Computer Architecture Letters 11(1): 17-20 (2012)

Daniel Chang, Stephen Hines, Paul E. West, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Whalley: Program Differentiation. Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers 21(2) (2012)

Ian Finlayson, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Improving Low Power Processor Efficiency with Static Pipelining. Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures 2011: 17-24

Sibin Mohan, Frank Mueller, Michael Root, William Hawkins, Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley, Emilio Vivancos: Parametric timing analysis and its application to dynamic voltage scaling. ACM Trans. Embedded Comput. Syst. 10(2): 25 (2010)

Prasad A. Kulkarni, Michael R. Jantz, David B. Whalley: Improving both the performance benefits and speed of optimization phase sequence searches. LCTES 2010: 95-104

Prasad A. Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson, Jack W. Davidson: Practical exhaustive optimization phase order exploration and evaluation. TACO 6(1) (2009)

Per Stenström, David B. Whalley: Introduction. T. HiPEAC 2: 3 (2009)

Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Guaranteeing instruction fetch behavior with a lookahead instruction fetch engine (LIFE). LCTES 2009: 119-128

Reinhard Wilhelm, Jakob Engblom, Andreas Ermedahl, Niklas Holsti, Stephan Thesing, David B. Whalley, Guillem Bernat, Christian Ferdinand, Reinhold Heckmann, Tulika Mitra, Frank Mueller, Isabelle Puaut, Peter P. Puschner, Jan Staschulat, Per Stenström: The worst-case execution-time problem - overview of methods and survey of tools. ACM Trans. Embedded Comput. Syst. 7(3) (2008)

David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Enhancing the effectiveness of utilizing an instruction register file. IPDPS 2008: 1-5

David B. Whalley: Guest Editorial. ACM Trans. Embedded Comput. Syst. 6(1) (2007)

Chris Zimmer, Stephen Roderick Hines, Prasad A. Kulkarni, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Whalley: Facilitating compiler optimizations through the dynamic mapping of alternate register structures. CASES 2007: 165-169

Prasad A. Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Evaluating Heuristic Optimization Phase Order Search Algorithms. CGO 2007: 157-169

Joel Coffman, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley: Generalizing parametric timing analysis. LCTES 2007: 152-154

Stephen Roderick Hines, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Whalley: Addressing instruction fetch bottlenecks by using an instruction register file. LCTES 2007: 165-174

Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Guaranteeing Hits to Improve the Efficiency of a Small Instruction Cache. MICRO 2007: 433-444

Jason Hiser, Jack W. Davidson, David B. Whalley: Fast, accurate design space exploration of embedded systems memory configurations. SAC 2007: 699-706

Koen De Bosschere, David R. Kaeli, Per Stenström, David B. Whalley, Theo Ungerer (Eds.): High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, Second International Conference, HiPEAC 2007, Ghent, Belgium, January 28-30, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4367, Springer 2007, isbn 978-3-540-69337-6

Wankang Zhao, William C. Kreahling, David B. Whalley, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller: Improving WCET by applying worst-case path optimizations. Real-Time Systems 34(2): 129-152 (2006)

Prasad A. Kulkarni, Wankang Zhao, Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan, Robert van Engelen, Kyle Gallivan, Jason Hiser, Jack W. Davidson, Baosheng Cai, Mark W. Bailey, Hwashin Moon, Kyunghwan Cho, Yunheung Paek: VISTA: VPO interactive system for tuning applications. ACM Trans. Embedded Comput. Syst. 5(4): 819-863 (2006)

Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Adapting compilation techniques to enhance the packing of instructions into registers. CASES 2006: 43-53

Prasad A. Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson, Jack W. Davidson: Exhaustive Optimization Phase Order Space Exploration. CGO 2006: 306-318

William C. Kreahling, Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson: Reducing the cost of conditional transfers of control by using comparison specifications. LCTES 2006: 64-71

Prasad A. Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson, Jack W. Davidson: In search of near-optimal optimization phase orderings. LCTES 2006: 83-92

William C. Kreahling, David B. Whalley, Mark W. Bailey, Xin Yuan, Gang-Ryung Uh, Robert van Engelen: Branch elimination by condition merging. Softw., Pract. Exper. 35(1): 51-74 (2005)

Gang-Ryung Uh, Yuhong Wang, David B. Whalley, Sanjay Jinturkar, Yunheung Paek, Vincent Cao, Chris Burns: Compiler transformations for effectively exploiting a zero overhead loop buffer. Softw., Pract. Exper. 35(4): 393-412 (2005)

Prasad A. Kulkarni, Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Jason Hiser, Jack W. Davidson, Douglas L. Jones: Fast and efficient searches for effective optimization-phase sequences. TACO 2(2): 165-198 (2005)

Wankang Zhao, David B. Whalley, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller: Improving WCET by applying a WC code-positioning optimization. TACO 2(4): 335-365 (2005)

Stephen Hines, Prasad A. Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Jack W. Davidson: Using de-optimization to re-optimize code. EMSOFT 2005: 114-123

R. Clint Whaley, David B. Whalley: Tuning High Performance Kernels through Empirical Compilation. ICPP 2005: 89-98

Stephen Hines, Joshua Green, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Whalley: Improving Program Efficiency by Packing Instructions into Registers. ISCA 2005: 260-271

Stephen Hines, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Whalley: Reducing Instruction Fetch Cost by Packing Instructions into RegisterWindows. MICRO 2005: 19-29

Wankang Zhao, William C. Kreahling, David B. Whalley, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller: Improving WCET by Optimizing Worst-Case Paths. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium 2005: 138-147

Sibin Mohan, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley, Christopher A. Healy: Timing Analysis for Sensor Network Nodes of the Atmega Processor Family. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium 2005: 405-414

Sibin Mohan, Frank Mueller, William Hawkins, Michael Root, Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley: ParaScale: Exploiting Parametric Timing Analysis for Real-Time Schedulers and Dynamic Voltage Scaling. RTSS 2005: 233-242

Robert van Engelen, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan: Automatic validation of code-improving transformations on low-level program representations. Sci. Comput. Program. 52: 257-280 (2004)

Jeonghun Cho, Yunheung Paek, David B. Whalley: Fast memory bank assignment for fixed-point digital signal processors. ACM Trans. Design Autom. Electr. Syst. 9(1): 52-74 (2004)

Prasad A. Kulkarni, Stephen Hines, Jason Hiser, David B. Whalley, Jack W. Davidson, Douglas L. Jones: Fast searches for effective optimization phase sequences. PLDI 2004: 171-182

Wankang Zhao, Prasad A. Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller, Gang-Ryung Uh: Tuning the WCET of Embedded Applications. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium 2004: 472-481

Wankang Zhao, David B. Whalley, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller: WCET Code Positioning. RTSS 2004: 81-91

David B. Whalley, Ron Cytron (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES'04), Washington, DC, USA, June 11-13, 2004. ACM 2004, isbn 1-58113-806-7

William C. Kreahling, David B. Whalley, Mark W. Bailey, Xin Yuan, Gang-Ryung Uh, Robert van Engelen: Branch Elimination via Multi-variable Condition Merging. Euro-Par 2003: 261-270

Prasad A. Kulkarni, Wankang Zhao, Hwashin Moon, Kyunghwan Cho, David B. Whalley, Jack W. Davidson, Mark W. Bailey, Yunheung Paek, Kyle Gallivan: Finding effective optimization phase sequences. LCTES 2003: 12-23

Robert van Engelen, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan: Validation of Code-Improving Transformations for Embedded Systems. SAC 2003: 684-691

Reinhard Wilhelm, Jakob Engblom, Stephan Thesing, David B. Whalley: Industrial Requirements for WCET Tools - Answers to the ARTIST Questionnaire. WCET 2003: 39-43

Minghui Yang, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley: Efficient and effective branch reordering using profile data. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 24(6): 667-697 (2002)

Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley: Automatic Detection and Exploitation of Branch Constraints for Timing Analysis. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 28(8): 763-781 (2002)

Jeonghun Cho, Yunheung Paek, David B. Whalley: Efficient register and memory assignment for non-orthogonal architectures via graph coloring and MST algorithms. LCTES-SCOPES 2002: 130-138

Wankang Zhao, Baosheng Cai, David B. Whalley, Mark W. Bailey, Robert van Engelen, Xin Yuan, Jason Hiser, Jack W. Davidson, Kyle Gallivan, Douglas L. Jones: VISTA: a system for interactive code improvement. LCTES-SCOPES 2002: 155-164

John M. Mellor-Crummey, David B. Whalley, Ken Kennedy: Improving Memory Hierarchy Performance for Irregular Applications Using Data and Computation Reorderings. International Journal of Parallel Programming 29(3): 217-247 (2001)

Apan Qasem, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan, Robert van Engelen: Using a Swap Instruction to Coalesce Loads and Stores. Euro-Par 2001: 235-240

John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B. Whalley: Tools for application-oriented performance tuning. ICS 2001: 154-165

Emilio Vivancos, Christopher A. Healy, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley: Parametric Timing Analysis. LCTES/OM 2001: 88-93

John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B. Whalley: On providing useful information for analyzing and tuning applications. SIGMETRICS/Performance 2001: 332-333

Christopher A. Healy, Mikael Sjödin, Viresh Rustagi, David B. Whalley, Robert van Engelen: Supporting Timing Analysis by Automatic Bounding of Loop Iterations. Real-Time Systems 18(2/3): 129-156 (2000)

Gang-Ryung Uh, Yuhong Wang, David B. Whalley, Sanjay Jinturkar, Chris Burns, Vincent Cao: Techniques for Effectively Exploiting a Zero Overhead Loop Buffer. CC 2000: 157-172

Robert van Engelen, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan: Automatic Validation of Code-Improving Transformations. LCTES 2000: 206-210

Randall T. White, Frank Mueller, Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Timing Analysis for Data and Wrap-Around Fill Caches. Real-Time Systems 17(2-3): 209-233 (1999)

Lo Ko, Naghan Al-Yaqoubi, Christopher A. Healy, Emily Ratliff, Robert D. Arnold, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Timing Constraint Specification and Analysis. Softw., Pract. Exper. 29(1): 77-98 (1999)

Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley: Effectively Exploiting Indirect Jumps. Softw., Pract. Exper. 29(12): 1061-1101 (1999)

Christopher A. Healy, Robert D. Arnold, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Bounding Pipeline and Instruction Cache Performance. IEEE Trans. Computers 48(1): 53-70 (1999)

John M. Mellor-Crummey, David B. Whalley, Ken Kennedy: Improving memory hierarchy performance for irregular applications. International Conference on Supercomputing 1999: 425-433

Gang-Ryung Uh, Yuhong Wang, David B. Whalley, Sanjay Jinturkar, Chris Burns, Vincent Cao: Effective Exploitation of a Zero Overhead Loop Buffer. Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems 1999: 10-19

Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley: Tighter Timing Predictions by Automatic Detection and Exploitation of Value-Dependent Constraints. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1999: 79-88

Minghui Yang, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley: Improving Performance by Branch Reordering. PLDI 1998: 130-141

Christopher A. Healy, Mikael Sjödin, Viresh Rustagi, David B. Whalley: Bounding Loop Iterations for Timing Analysis. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1998: 12-21

Randall T. White, Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley, Frank Mueller, Marion G. Harmon: Timing Analysis for Data Caches and Set-Associative Caches. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1997: 192-202

Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley: Coalescing Conditional Branches into Efficient Indirect Jumps. SAS 1997: 315-329

Lo Ko, Christopher A. Healy, Emily Ratliff, Robert D. Arnold, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Supporting the specification and analysis of timing constraints. IEEE Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium 1996: 170-

Mickey R. Boyd, David B. Whalley: Graphical visualization of compiler optimizations. J. Prog. Lang. 3(2) (1995)

Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley: Fast instruction cache analysis via static cache simulation. Annual Simulation Symposium 1995: 105-114

Lo Ko, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Supporting User-Friendly Analysis of Timing Constraints. Workshop on Languages, Compilers, & Tools for Real-Time Systems 1995: 99-107

Richard Gerber, Steven W. K. Tjiang, David B. Whalley, David Wilner, Michael Wolfe: Appropriate Interfaces Between Design Tools, Languages, Compilers and Runtimes in Real-Time Systems (Panel). Workshop on Languages, Compilers, & Tools for Real-Time Systems 1995: 124

Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley: Avoiding Conditional Branches by Code Replication. PLDI 1995: 56-66

Christopher A. Healy, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Integrating the Timing Analysis of Pipelining and Instruction Caching. RTSS 1995: 288-297

Marion G. Harmon, Theodore P. Baker, David B. Whalley: A Retargetable Technique for Predicting Execution Time of Code Segments. Real-Time Systems 7(2): 159-182 (1994)

David B. Whalley: Automatic Isolation of Compiler Errors. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 16(5): 1648-1659 (1994)

Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Real-Time Debugging by Minimal Hardware Simulation. PEARL 1994: 68-76

Robert D. Arnold, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley, Marion G. Harmon: Bounding Worst-Case Instruction Cache Performance. RTSS 1994: 172-181

Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley: Efficient On-the-fly Analysis of Program Behavior and Static Cache Simulation. SAS 1994: 101-115

David B. Whalley: Techniques for Fast Instruction Cache Performance Evaluation. Softw., Pract. Exper. 23(1): 95-118 (1993)

Mickey R. Boyd, David B. Whalley: Isolation and Analysis of Optimization Errors. PLDI 1993: 26-35

Jack W. Davidson, John R. Rabung, David B. Whalley: Relating Static and Dynamic Machine Code Measurements. IEEE Trans. Computers 41(4): 444-454 (1992)

Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley: Avoiding Unconditional Jumps by Code Replication. PLDI 1992: 322-330

Marion G. Harmon, Theodore P. Baker, David B. Whalley: A Retargetable Technique for Predicting Execution Time. RTSS 1992: 68-77

David B. Whalley: Fast Instruction Cache Performance Evaluation Using Compile-Time Analysis. SIGMETRICS 1992: 13-22

Jack W. Davidson, David B. Whalley: Methods for Saving and Restoring Register Values across Function Calls. Softw., Pract. Exper. 21(2): 149-165 (1991)

Jack W. Davidson, David B. Whalley: Reducing the Cost of Branches by Using Registers. ISCA 1990: 182-191

Jack W. Davidson, David B. Whalley: Ease: An Environment for Architecture Study and Experimentation. SIGMETRICS 1990: 259-260

Jack W. Davidson, David B. Whalley: Quick Compilers Using Peephole Optimization. Softw., Pract. Exper. 19(1): 79-97 (1989)