The core of current-generation high-performance multiprocessor systems is out-of-order execution processors with aggressive branch prediction. Despite their relatively high branch...
Resit Sendag, Ayse Yilmazer, Joshua J. Yi, Augustu...
With the ongoing advancements in VLSI technology, the performance of an embedded system is determined to a large extend by the communication of data and instructions. This results...
There are two basic models for the on-chip memory in CMP systems: hardware-managed coherent caches and software-managed streaming memory. This paper performs a direct comparison o...
Jacob Leverich, Hideho Arakida, Alex Solomatnikov,...
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...
To maintain coherence in conventional shared-memory multiprocessor systems, processors first check other processors’ caches before obtaining data from memory. This coherence che...