Power consumption is becoming an increasingly important constraint in the design of microprocessors. This paper examines the use of multiple constrained processors running at lowe...
Eric F. Weglarz, Kewal K. Saluja, Mikko H. Lipasti
Technology projections indicate that static power will become a major concern in future generations of high-performance microprocessors. Caches represent a significant percentage ...
Salvador Petit, Julio Sahuquillo, Jose M. Such, Da...
In the design of embedded systems, especially batterypowered systems, it is important to reduce energy consumption. Cache are now used not only in general-purpose processors but a...
Junpei Zushi, Gang Zeng, Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Hiroak...
We propose a new design for an energy-efficient hardware transactional memory (HTM) system for power-aware embedded devices. Prior hardware transactional memory designs proposed a ...
Cesare Ferri, Samantha Wood, Tali Moreshet, R. Iri...
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...