Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...
The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a programmable processor is the native languageof the machine. It defines the set of operations and resourcesthat are optimized for that ...
Reconfigurable computing is one of the most recent research topics in computer science. The Altera™ Nios II soft-core processor can be included in a large set of reconfigurable ...
Willian dos Santos Lima, Renata Spolon Lobato, Ale...
d hardware design from behavior-level abstraction has drawn wide interest in FPGA-based acceleration and configurable computing research field. However, for many high-level progra...
Modern superscalar processors implement precise interrupts by using the Reorder Buffer (ROB). In some microarchitectures , such as the Intel P6, the ROB also serves as a repositor...
Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...