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DSN
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
In-Register Duplication: Exploiting Narrow-Width Value for Improving Register File Reliability
Protecting the register value and its data buses is crucial to reliable computing in high-performance microprocessors due to the increasing susceptibility of CMOS circuitry to sof...
Jie Hu, Shuai Wang, Sotirios G. Ziavras
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Branch predictor guided instruction decoding
Fast instruction decoding is a challenge for the design of CISC microprocessors. A well-known solution to overcome this problem is using a trace cache. It stores and fetches alrea...
Oliverio J. Santana, Ayose Falcón, Alex Ram...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Comparing simulation techniques for microarchitecture-aware floorplanning
— Due to the long simulation times of the reference input sets, microarchitects resort to alternative techniques to speed up cycle-accurate simulations. However, the reduction in...
Vidyasagar Nookala, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja, Sac...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Mitigating the Impact of Process Variations on Processor Register Files and Execution Units
Design variability due to die-to-die and within-die process variations has the potential to significantly reduce the maximum operating frequency and the effective yield of high-p...
Xiaoyao Liang, David Brooks
SAC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the compensated Horner scheme with a fused multiply and add
Several different techniques and softwares intend to improve the accuracy of results computed in a fixed finite precision. Here we focus on a method to improve the accuracy of ...
Stef Graillat, Philippe Langlois, Nicolas Louvet