The instruction queue is a critical component and performance bottleneck in superscalar microprocessors. Conventional designs use physical register identifiers to wake up instruct...
High mask and production costs for the newest CMOS silicon technologies increase the pressure to develop hardware platforms useable for different applications or variants of the s...
Christian Panis, Ulrich Hirnschrott, Gunther Laure...
The key to increasing performance without a commensurate increase in power consumption in modern processors lies in increasing both parallelism and core specialization. Core speci...
Set-associative caches are traditionally managed using hardwarebased lookup and replacement schemes that have high energy overheads. Ideally, the caching strategy should be tailor...
Rajiv A. Ravindran, Michael L. Chu, Scott A. Mahlk...
While Moore’s Law predicts the ability of semi-conductor industry to engineer smaller and more efficient transistors and circuits, there are serious issues not contemplated in t...
Javier Carretero, Pedro Chaparro, Xavier Vera, Jau...