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ISLPED
2006
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Selective writeback: exploiting transient values for energy-efficiency and performance
Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...
VLSID
2007
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Efficient Microprocessor Verification using Antecedent Conditioned Slicing
We present a technique for automatic verification of pipelined microprocessors using model checking. Antecedent conditioned slicing is an efficient abstraction technique for hardw...
Shobha Vasudevan, Vinod Viswanath, Jacob A. Abraha...
ISLPED
2004
ACM
122views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Microarchitectural techniques for power gating of execution units
Leakage power is a major concern in current and future microprocessor designs. In this paper, we explore the potential of architectural techniques to reduce leakage through power-...
Zhigang Hu, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Viji Srinivasan,...
ACSD
1998
IEEE
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14 years 6 days ago
Verification of Pipelined Microprocessors by Correspondence Checking in Symbolic Ternary Simulation
This paper makes the idea of memory shadowing [5] applicable to symbolic ternary simulation. Memory shadowing, an extension of Burch and Dill's pipeline verification method [...
Miroslav N. Velev, Randal E. Bryant
CF
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Low power microarchitecture with instruction reuse
Power consumption has become a very important metric and challenging research topic in the design of microprocessors in the recent years. The goal of this work is to improve power...
Frederico Pratas, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Mladen Bereko...