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MICRO
2005
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
The TM3270 Media-Processor
We present the TM3270 media-processor, the latest TriMedia VLIW processor, tuned to address the performance demands of standard definition video processing, combined with embedded...
Jan-Willem van de Waerdt, Stamatis Vassiliadis, Sa...
ICS
1995
Tsinghua U.
13 years 12 months ago
A Data Cache with Multiple Caching Strategies Tuned to Different Types of Locality
Current data cache organizations fail to deliver high performance in scalar processors for many vector applications. There are two main reasons for this loss of performance: the u...
Antonio González, Carlos Aliagas, Mateo Val...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
98views Hardware» more  MICRO 1999»
14 years 21 days ago
Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for Multipath Execution Processors
Branch mispredictions can have a major performance impact on high-performance processors. Multipath execution has recently been introduced to help limit the misprediction penaltie...
Artur Klauser, Dirk Grunwald
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
Annotated Memory References: A Mechanism for Informed Cache Management
Processor cycle time continues to decrease faster than main memory access times, placing higher demands on cache memory hierarchy performance. To meet these demands, conventional ...
Alvin R. Lebeck, David R. Raymond, Chia-Lin Yang, ...
MICRO
1994
IEEE
96views Hardware» more  MICRO 1994»
14 years 15 days ago
A fill-unit approach to multiple instruction issue
Multiple issue of instructions occurs in superscalar and VLIW machines. This paper investigates a third type of machine design, which combines the advantages of code compatibility...
Manoj Franklin, Mark Smotherman