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IEEEPACT
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Effect of Program Optimization on Trace Cache Efficiency
Trace cache, an instruction fetch technique that reduces taken branch penalties by storing and fetching program instructions in dynamic execution order, dramatically improves inst...
Derek L. Howard, Mikko H. Lipasti
CF
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
By-passing the out-of-order execution pipeline to increase energy-efficiency
Out-of-order execution significantly increases the performance of superscalar processors. The out-of-order execution mechanism is, however, energy-inefficient, which inhibits scal...
Hans Vandierendonck, Philippe Manet, Thibault Dela...
SASP
2008
IEEE
77views Hardware» more  SASP 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Resource Sharing in Custom Instruction Set Extensions
Abstract—Customised processor performance generally increases as additional custom instructions are added. However, performance is not the only metric that modern systems must ta...
Marcela Zuluaga, Nigel P. Topham
FPL
2005
Springer
110views Hardware» more  FPL 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
CUSTARD - A Customisable Threaded FPGA Soft Processor and Tools
Abstract. We propose CUSTARD — CUStomisable Threaded ARchitecture — a soft processor design space that combines support for multiple hardware threads and automatically generate...
Robert G. Dimond, Oskar Mencer, Wayne Luk
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic configuration steering for a reconfigurable superscalar processor
A new dynamic vector approach for the selection and management of the configuration of a reconfigurable superscalar processor is proposed. This new method improves on previous wor...
Nick A. Mould, Brian F. Veale, Monte P. Tull, John...