Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...
Trends in microprocessors of increasing die size and clock speed and decreasing feature sizes have fueled rapidly increasing performance. However, the limited improvements in DRAM...
Jinwoo Suh, Eun-Gyu Kim, Stephen P. Crago, Lakshmi...
In current superscalar processors, all floating-point resources are idle during the execution of integer programs. As previous works show, this problem can be alleviated if the fl...
Ramon Canal, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio Gonz&a...
Current superscalar processors, both RISC and CISC, require substantial instruction fetch and decode bandwidth to keep multiple functional units utilized. While CISC instructions ...
Application-specific processor design is a promising approach for meeting the performance and cost goals of a system. Application-specific processors are especially promising for ...