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PDP
2010
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Energy-Efficient Hardware Prefetching for CMPs Using Heterogeneous Interconnects
In the last years high performance processor designs have evolved toward Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures that implement multiple processing cores on a single die. As the nu...
Antonio Flores, Juan L. Aragón, Manuel E. A...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing communication and capacity in a 3D stacked reconfigurable cache hierarchy
Cache hierarchies in future many-core processors are expected to grow in size and contribute a large fraction of overall processor power and performance. In this paper, we postula...
Niti Madan, Li Zhao, Naveen Muralimanohar, Anirudd...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
93views Hardware» more  ISCA 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
The Energy Efficiency of IRAM Architectures
Portable systems demand energy efficiency in order to maximize battery life. IRAM architectures, which combine DRAM and a processor on the same chip in a DRAM process, are more en...
Richard Fromm, Stylianos Perissakis, Neal Cardwell...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Branch predictor guided instruction decoding
Fast instruction decoding is a challenge for the design of CISC microprocessors. A well-known solution to overcome this problem is using a trace cache. It stores and fetches alrea...
Oliverio J. Santana, Ayose Falcón, Alex Ram...
GLVLSI
2005
IEEE
124views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A first look at the interplay of code reordering and configurable caches
The instruction cache is a popular target for optimizations of microprocessor-based systems because of the cache’s high impact on system performance and power, and because of th...
Ann Gordon-Ross, Frank Vahid, Nikil Dutt