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...
With the scaling of technology and the need for higher performance and more functionality, power dissipation is becoming a major bottleneck for microprocessor designs. Pipeline ba...
Hai Li, Swarup Bhunia, Yiran Chen, T. N. Vijaykuma...
Buffering more in-flight instructions in an out-of-order microprocessor is a straightforward and effective method to help tolerate the long latencies generally associated with ...
Alok Garg, Fernando Castro, Michael C. Huang, Dani...
Multicore architectures have been ruling the recent microprocessor design trend. This is due to different reasons: better performance, thread-level parallelism bounds in modern app...
Matteo Monchiero, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonzá...
Design complexity is rapidly becoming a limiting factor in the design of modern, high-performance microprocessors. This paper introduces an optimization technique to improve the e...