This paper explores a novel way to incorporate hardware-programmable resources into a processor microarchitecture to improve the performance of general-purpose applications. Throu...
Energy efficiency is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. A very effective approach to improving the energy efficiency of a chip is to lower its supply voltage to very ...
Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, James Dinan, Bruc...
Vdd-programmable FPGAs have been proposed recently to reduce FPGA power, where Vdd levels can be customized for different circuit elements and unused circuit elements can be powe...
The impact of process variation in state of the art technology makes traditional (worst case) designs unnecessarily pessimistic, which translates to suboptimal designs in terms of...
—Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Since a large fraction of chip area is devoted to on-...
Amin Ansari, Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Scott ...