Performance analysis of microprocessors is a critical step in defining the microarchitecture, prior to register-transfer-level (RTL) design. In complex chip multiprocessor systems...
Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi, Indira Nair, Gero Dittman...
Power density in high-performance processors continues to increase with technology generations as scaling of current, clock speed, and device density outpaces the downscaling of s...
Mohamed A. Gomaa, Michael D. Powell, T. N. Vijayku...
Power consumption has become a major constraint in the design of processors today. To optimize a processor for energyefficiency requires an examination of energy-performance trade...
Omid Azizi, Aqeel Mahesri, Benjamin C. Lee, Sanjay...
A 550MHz 64b PowerPC processor was developed for fabrication in Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology from a processor previously designed and fabricated in bulk CMOS [1]. Both th...
Because they are based on large content-addressable memories, load-store queues (LSQ) present implementation challenges in superscalar processors, especially as issue width and nu...