This paper introduces a cost-effective technique to deal with CMP coherence protocol requirements from the interconnection network point of view. A mechanism is presented to avoid...
Functional, instruction-based self-testing of microprocessors has recently emerged as an effective alternative or supplement to other testing approaches, and is progressively adop...
Andreas Apostolakis, Dimitris Gizopoulos, Mihalis ...
This paper deals with multiprocessor systems required to provide both high performance and good figures of dependability attributes. Fault tolerance is pursued through a proper co...
Felicita Di Giandomenico, Silvano Chiaradonna, And...
Abstract. It has been already verified that hardware-supported finegrain synchronization provides a significant performance improvement over coarse-grained synchronization mecha...
Vladimir Vlassov, Oscar Sierra Merino, Csaba Andra...
Resource sharing can cause unfair and unpredictable performance of concurrently executing applications in Chip-Multiprocessors (CMP). The shared last-level cache is one of the mos...