With device counts on modern-day ASICs crossing the 10 million mark, careful planning of an ASIC design project is necessary to meet time deadlines. Two problems arise in this con...
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...
Transactional memory (TM) provides an easy-to-use and high-performance parallel programming model for the upcoming chip-multiprocessor systems. Several researchers have proposed a...
JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Chi Cao Minh, Austen...
The memory system's large and growing contribution to system performance motivates more aggressive approaches to improving its efficiency. We propose and analyze a memory hie...
Using alternative cache indexing/hashing functions is a popular technique to reduce conflict misses by achieving a more uniform cache access distribution across the sets in the ca...
Mazen Kharbutli, Keith Irwin, Yan Solihin, Jaejin ...