Improvements in the processing speed of multiprocessors are outpacing improvements in the speed of disk hardware. Parallel disk I/O subsystems have been proposed as one way to clo...
We present a new monolithic silicon photonics technology suited for integration with standard bulk CMOS processes, which reduces costs and improves opto-electrical coupling compar...
Christopher Batten, Ajay Joshi, Jason Orcutt, Anat...
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...
Amit Gandhi, Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasa...
Image and video codecs are prevalent in multimedia devices, ranging from embedded systems, to desktop computers, to high-end servers such as HDTV editing consoles. It is not uncom...
M. Drake, Henry Hoffmann, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman ...
As transistor counts keep increasing and clock frequencies rise, high power consumption is becoming one of the most important obstacles, preventing further scaling and performance...
Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Oz...