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SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Modern processors use branch target buffers (BTBs) to predict the target address of branches such that they can fetch ahead in the instruction stream increasing concurrency and pe...
TC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
—Switched networks have been adopted in on-chip communication for their scalability and efficient resource sharing. However, using a general network for a specific domain may res...
VLSID
2007
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
Piecewise linear branch predictor has been demonstrated to have superior prediction accuracy; however, its huge hardware overhead prevents the predictor from being practical in the...
SIES
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2008
IEEE
SystemC becomes popular as an efficient system-level modelling language and simulation platform. However, the solethread simulation kernel obstacles its performance progress from ...