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MICRO
1994
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Characterizing the impact of predicated execution on branch prediction
Branch instructions are recognized as a major impediment to exploiting instruction level parallelism. Even with sophisticated branch prediction techniques, many frequently execute...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, Roger A. Bringma...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  MICRO 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Accurate and efficient predicate analysis with binary decision diagrams
Functionality and performance of EPIC architectural features depend on extensive compiler support. Predication, one of these features, promises to reduce control flow overhead and...
John W. Sias, Wen-mei W. Hwu, David I. August
TVLSI
2008
121views more  TVLSI 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Area-Efficient Arithmetic Expression Evaluation Using Deeply Pipelined Floating-Point Cores
Recently, it has become possible to implement floating-point cores on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to provide acceleration for the myriad applications that require high-p...
Ronald Scrofano, Ling Zhuo, Viktor K. Prasanna
TC
1998
15 years 4 months ago
Performance Evaluation and Cost Analysis of Cache Protocol Extensions for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
—We evaluate three extensions to directory-based cache coherence protocols in shared-memory multiprocessors. These extensions are aimed at reducing the penalties associated with ...
Fredrik Dahlgren, Michel Dubois, Per Stenströ...
CODES
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On compile-time evaluation of process partitioning transformations for Kahn process networks
Kahn Process Networks is an appealing model of computation for programming and mapping applications onto multi-processor platforms. Autonomous processes communicate through unboun...
Sjoerd Meijer, Hristo Nikolov, Todor Stefanov