As across-chip interconnect delays can exceed a clock cycle, wire pipelining becomes essential in high performance designs. Although it allows higher clock frequencies, it may cha...
Single-thread performance, reliability and power efficiency are critical design challenges of future multicore systems. Although point solutions have been proposed to address thes...
Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Amin Ansari, Scott ...
Router microarchitecture plays a central role in the performance of an on-chip network (NoC). Buffers are needed in routers to house incoming flits which cannot be immediately forw...
Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam, Vassos Soteriou, Bill Lin,...
— Microarchitecturally integrated on-chip networks, or micronets, are candidates to replace busses for processor component interconnect in future processor designs. For micronets...
Paul Gratz, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Heather Han...
The performance tradeoff between hardware complexity and clock speed is studied. First, a generic superscalar pipeline is defined. Then the specific areas of register renaming, ...
Subbarao Palacharla, Norman P. Jouppi, James E. Sm...