With shrinking noise margins and increasing numbers of on-chip noise sources, power grid design has become a critical performance determinant. This paper presents an overview of r...
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy Kurian John, ...
Growing demand for high performance in embedded systems is creating new opportunities for Instruction-Level Parallelism ILP techniques that are traditionally used in high perform...
Daniel A. Connors, Jean-Michel Puiatti, David I. A...
As the power consumption of modern highperformance microprocessors increases beyond 100W, power becomes an increasingly important design consideration. This paper presents a novel...
— Bit and subword permutations are useful in many multimedia and cryptographic applications. New shift and permute instructions have been added to the instruction set of general-...