High-performance out-of-order processors spend a significant portion of their execution time on the incorrect program path even though they employ aggressive branch prediction al...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale ...
Kriegspiel is a Chess variant similar to wargames, in which players have to deal with uncertainty. Kriegspiel increases the difficulty typical of Chess by hiding from each player h...
— Workload design is a well recognized problem in the domain of microprocessor design. Different program characteristics that influence the selection of a representative workloa...
Alexander Maxiaguine, Samarjit Chakraborty, Wei Ts...
Single-event upsets from particle strikes have become a key challenge in microprocessor design. Techniques to deal with these transient faults exist, but come at a cost. Designers...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Joe...
This paper briefly reviews the current research into RISC microprocessor architecture, which now seems to be so complex as to make the acronym somewhat of an oxymoron. In response...