Functional correctness is a vital attribute of any hardware design. Unfortunately, due to extremely complex architectures, widespread components, such as microprocessors, are often...
In the future, advanced integrated circuit processing and packaging technology will allow for several design options for multiprocessor microprocessors. In this paper we consider ...
Researchers have proposed using hardware data compression units within the memory hierarchies of microprocessors in order to improve performance, energy efficiency, and functional...
Xi Chen, Lei Yang, Haris Lekatsas, Robert P. Dick,...
- This paper reports on a highly effective methodology to construct complex high performance microprocessors. Critical aspects of the methodology include an integrated database for...
A. Bertolet, K. Carpenter, Keith M. Carrig, Albert...
This paper describes the design and implementation of our high speed simulator for out-of-order microprocessors named BurstScalar. The simulator is based on the wellknown SimpleSc...