As semiconductor processing technology continues to scale down, managing reliability becomes an increasingly difficult challenge in high-performance microprocessor design. Transie...
Continuous evolution in process technology brings energyefficiency and reliability challenges, which are harder for memory system designs since chip multiprocessors demand high ba...
Jung Ho Ahn, Norman P. Jouppi, Christos Kozyrakis,...
As transistor process technology approaches the nanometer scale, process variation significantly affects the design and optimization of high performance microprocessors. Prior stu...
There are two avenues for many-core machines to gain higher performance: increasing the number of processors, and increasing the number of vector units in one SIMD processor. A tru...
Xiaohuang Huang, Christopher I. Rodrigues, Stephen...
Short vector (SIMD) instructions are useful in signal processing, multimedia, and scientific applications. They offer higher performance, lower energy consumption, and better res...