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...
The growing dominance of wire delays at future technology points renders a microprocessor communication-bound. Clustered microarchitectures allow most dependence chains to execute...
The center of gravity of computer architecture is moving toward memory systems. Barring breakthrough microarchitectural techniques to move processor performance to higher levels, ...
Mohamed M. Zahran, Kursad Albayraktaroglu, Manoj F...
Due to shrinking feature sizes processors are becoming more vulnerable to soft errors. Write-back caches are particularly vulnerable since they hold dirty data that do not exist i...
Mehrtash Manoochehri, Murali Annavaram, Michel Dub...
Providing adequate data bandwidth is extremely important for a wide-issue superscalar processor to achieve its full performance potential. Adding a large number of ports to a data...