On-chip communication, including short, often-multicast, latency-critical coherence and synchronization messages, and long, unicast, throughput-sensitive data transfer, limits the...
Zheng Li, Jie Wu, Li Shang, Alan R. Mickelson, Man...
Clustering is an effective microarchitectural technique for reducing the impact of wire delays, the complexity, and the power requirements of microprocessors. In this work, we inv...
Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Julio Sahuquillo, Antonio G...
This paper studies the impact on energy efficiency and thermal behavior of design style and clock-gating style in queue and array structures. These structures are major sources of...
Yingmin Li, Mark Hempstead, Patrick Mauro, David B...
On-chip interconnection networks (OCINs) have emerged as a modular and scalable solution for wire delay constraints in deep submicron VLSI design. OCIN research has shown that the ...
Avinash Karanth Kodi, Ashwini Sarathy, Ahmed Louri
—Caches made of non-volatile memory technologies, such as Magnetic RAM (MRAM) and Phase-change RAM (PRAM), offer dramatically different power-performance characteristics when com...