Thermal effects are becoming increasingly important during integrated circuit design. Thermal characteristics influence reliability, power consumption, cooling costs, and performan...
The level of security provided by digital rights management functions and cryptographic protocols depend heavily on the security of an embedded secret key. The current practice of...
This paper proposes and studies a distributed L2 cache management approach through page-level data to cache slice mapping in a future processor chip comprising many cores. L2 cach...
Software configuration management (SCM) products have evolved over the years and have become large and powerful, but they are not flexible enough to allow the user to pick the kind...
This paper describes a comprehensive approach for using the memory controller to improve DRAM energy efficiency and manage DRAM power. We make three contributions: (1) we describe...