An integrated, hardware / software co-designed CISC processor is proposed and analyzed. The objectives are high performance and reduced complexity. Although the x86 ISA is targete...
Shiliang Hu, Ilhyun Kim, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E...
The contentious debates between RISC and CISC have died down, and a CISC ISA, the x86 continues to be popular. Nowadays, processors with CISC-ISAs translate the CISC instructions i...
Current superscalar processors, both RISC and CISC, require substantial instruction fetch and decode bandwidth to keep multiple functional units utilized. While CISC instructions ...
Traditional pulldown comparators that are used to implement associativeaddressing logic in superscalar microprocessors dissipate energy on a mismatch in any bit position in the co...
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
An architecture for a reconfigurable superscalar processor is described in which some of its execution units are implemented in reconfigurable hardware. The overall configuration ...