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2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
In-Register Duplication: Exploiting Narrow-Width Value for Improving Register File Reliability
Protecting the register value and its data buses is crucial to reliable computing in high-performance microprocessors due to the increasing susceptibility of CMOS circuitry to sof...
Jie Hu, Shuai Wang, Sotirios G. Ziavras
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting narrow-width values for thermal-aware register file designs
—Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we ...
Shuai Wang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Sung Woo ...
ISVLSI
2007
IEEE
127views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Asymmetrically Banked Value-Aware Register Files
Designing high-performance low-power register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply-pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziav...
MAM
2008
114views more  MAM 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Asymmetrically banked value-aware register files for low-energy and high-performance
Designing high-performance low-energy register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie S. Hu, Sotirios G. Z...
ISLPED
2006
ACM
100views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Selective writeback: exploiting transient values for energy-efficiency and performance
Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...