Our program benchmarks and simulations of novel circuits indicate that large-window processors are feasible. Using our redesigned superscalar components, a large-window processor ...
Dana S. Henry, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Gabriel H. Loh...
Synchronous circuits are typically clocked considering worst case timing paths so that timing errors are avoided under all circumstances. In the case of a pipelined processor, thi...
Viswanathan Subramanian, Mikel Bezdek, Naga Durga ...
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 ...
The poor scalability of existing superscalar processors has been of great concern to the computer engineering community. In particular, the critical-path lengths of many components...
Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Dana S. Henry, Gabriel H. Loh
In modern superscalar processors, the complex instruction scheduler could form the critical path of the pipeline stages and limit the clock cycle time. In addition, complex schedu...