Energy saving is becoming one of the major design issues in processor architectures with multiple functional units (FUs). Nested loops are usually the most critical part in multim...
— Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) systems have become the reference architecture for designing micro-processors, thanks to the improvements in semiconductor nanotechnology that have co...
Pierfrancesco Foglia, Cosimo Antonio Prete, Marco ...
With technology advancing toward deep submicron, leakage energy is of increasing concern, especially for large onchip array structures such as caches and branch predictors. Recent...
Zhigang Hu, Philo Juang, Kevin Skadron, Douglas W....
While hardware instruction caches are present in virtually all general-purpose and high-performance microprocessors today, many embedded processors use SRAM or scratchpad memories...
Soft-error induced reliability problems have become a major challenge in designing new generation microprocessors. Due to the on-chip caches' dominant share in die area and tr...