Laura Pozzi, Kubilay Atasu, and Paolo Ienne. Exact and Approximate Algorithms for the Extension of Embedded Processor Instruction Sets. In IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design. To appear.

Partha Biswas, Nikil Dutt, Paolo Ienne and Laura Pozzi. Automatic Identification of Application-Specific Functional Units with Architecturally Visible Storage. In Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Munich, March 2006. Best paper award candidate

Laura Pozzi and Paolo Ienne. Exploiting pipelining to relax register-file port constraints of instruction-set extensions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, San Francisco, Calif., September 2005.

Diviya Jain, Anshul Kumar, Laura Pozzi, and Paolo Ienne. Automatically customising VLIWarchitectures with coarse grained application-specific functional units. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems, Amsterdam, September 2004.

Partha Biswas, Kubilay Atasu, Vinay Choudhary, Laura Pozzi, Nikil Dutt, and Paolo Ienne. Introduction of local memory elements in instruction set extensions. In Proceedings of the 41st Design Automation Conference, San Diego, Calif., June 2004.

Armita Peymandoust, Laura Pozzi, Paolo Ienne, and Giovanni De Micheli. Automatic Instruction Set Extension and Utilization for Embedded Processors, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on ASAP, Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 2003.
Kubilay Atasu, Laura Pozzi, and Paolo Ienne. Automatic Application-Specific Instruction-Set Extensions under Microarchitectural Constraints, In Proceedings of 40th DAC Design Automation Conference, Los Angeles, June 2003.  Best paper award
 
Ajay Kumar Verma, Kubilay Atasu, Miljan Vuletic, Laura Pozzi, and Paolo Ienne. Automatic Application-Specific Instruction-Set Extensions under Microarchitectural Constraints,  In Proceedings of WASP-1 the 1st Workshop onApplication Specific Processors, Istanbul, November 2002.
 
Laura Pozzi, Miljan Vuletic, and Paolo Ienne. Automatic topology-based Identification of instruction-set Extensions for Embedded Processors,  Poster paper in Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, page 1138, Paris, March 2002. Extended Version Here

Paolo Ienne, Laura Pozzi, Miljan Vuletic. On the Limits of Processor Specialisation by Mapping Dataflow Sections on Ad-hoc Functional Units.CS Technical Report 01/376. December 2001.