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2005
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
On the energy-efficiency of speculative hardware
Microprocessor trends are moving towards wider architectures and more aggressive speculation. With the increasing transistor budgets, energy consumption has become a critical desi...
Nana B. Sam, Martin Burtscher
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Block cache for embedded systems
On chip memories provide fast and energy efficient storage for code and data in comparison to caches or external memories. We present techniques and algorithms that allow for an au...
Dominic Hillenbrand, Jörg Henkel
TOCS
1998
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13 years 9 months ago
Using Value Prediction to Increase the Power of Speculative Execution Hardware
This paper presents an experimental and analytical study of value prediction and its impact on speculative execution in superscalar microprocessors. Value prediction is a new para...
Freddy Gabbay, Avi Mendelson
MICRO
2010
IEEE
153views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Scalable Speculative Parallelization on Commodity Clusters
While clusters of commodity servers and switches are the most popular form of large-scale parallel computers, many programs are not easily parallelized for execution upon them. In...
Hanjun Kim, Arun Raman, Feng Liu, Jae W. Lee, Davi...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
242views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...