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IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Flexible Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architecture
Multi-core processors naturally exploit thread-level parallelism (TLP). However, extracting instruction-level parallelism (ILP) from individual applications or threads is still a ...
Miquel Pericàs, Adrián Cristal, Fran...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
92views Hardware» more  MICRO 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Predictive Techniques for Aggressive Load Speculation
Load latency remains a significant bottleneck in dynamically scheduled pipelined processors. Load speculation techniques have been proposed to reduce this latency. Dependence Pred...
Glenn Reinman, Brad Calder
ISCA
2012
IEEE
232views Hardware» more  ISCA 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
RADISH: Always-on sound and complete race detection in software and hardware
Data-race freedom is a valuable safety property for multithreaded programs that helps with catching bugs, simplifying memory consistency model semantics, and verifying and enforci...
Joseph Devietti, Benjamin P. Wood, Karin Strauss, ...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
152views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Leakage Power Optimization Techniques for Ultra Deep Sub-Micron Multi-Level Caches
On-chip L1 and L2 caches represent a sizeable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. In deep sub-micron technology, the subthreshold leakage power is becoming...
Nam Sung Kim, David Blaauw, Trevor N. Mudge
MICRO
2008
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Token tenure: PATCHing token counting using directory-based cache coherence
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...
Arun Raghavan, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin