Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an effective technique for controlling microprocessor energy and performance. Existing DVFS techniques are primarily based on hardw...
Qiang Wu, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clark, Vi...
1 At-speed testing is becoming increasingly difficult with external testers as the speed of microprocessors approaches the GHz range. One solution to this problem is built-in self-...
The Sony–Toshiba–IBM Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) is a heterogeneous multicore architecture that consists of a traditional microprocessor (PPE) with eight SIMD co-process...
David A. Bader, Virat Agarwal, Kamesh Madduri, Seu...
: The explosive growth of internet traffic and the increasing complexity of the functions performed by network nodes have given rise to a new breed of programmable micro-processors...