3D integration is an emergent technology that has the potential to greatly increase device density while simultaneously providing faster on-chip communication. 3D fabrication invo...
As the amount of available silicon resources on one chip increases, we have seen the advent of ever increasing parallel resources integrated on-chip. Many architectures use these ...
The performance requirements for contemporary microprocessors are increasing as rapidly as their number of applications grows. By accelerating the clock, performance can be gained...
With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the Internet and its stringent performance requirements, network system designers have begun utilizing specialized chips to increase the ...
Architectural advancements in modern processor designs increase average performance with features such as pipelines, caches, branch prediction, and out-of-order execution. However...