With shrinking feature size of silicon fabrication technology, architects are putting more and more logic into a single die. While one might opt to use these transistors for build...
Lin Li, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mahmut T. Kandemi...
The significant speed-gap between processor and memory and the limited chip memory bandwidth make last-level cache performance crucial for future chip multiprocessors. To use the...
The current trend is for processors to deliver dramatic improvements in parallel performance while only modestly improving serial performance. Parallel performance is harvested th...
Sanjeev Kumar, Daehyun Kim, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Y...
Chip multiprocessors with multiple simpler cores are gaining popularity because they have the potential to drive future performance gains without exacerbating the problems of powe...
Hongtao Zhong, Steven A. Lieberman, Scott A. Mahlk...
On-chip implementation of multiprocessor systems requires the planarization of the interconnect network onto the silicon floorplan. Manual floorplanning approaches will become i...