Microprocessor clock frequency has improved by nearly 40% annually over the past decade. This improvement has been provided, in equal measure, by smaller technologies and deeper p...
M. S. Hrishikesh, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler,...
Instruction window size is an important design parameter for many modern processors. Large instruction windows offer the potential advantage of exposing large amounts of instructi...
Alvin R. Lebeck, Tong Li, Eric Rotenberg, Jinson K...
Exponential growth in the number of on-chip transistors, coupled with reductions in voltage levels, makes each generation of microprocessors increasingly vulnerable to transient f...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Michael Kontz, Steven K. R...
Increasing the number of instruction queue (IQ) entries in a dynamically scheduled processor exposes more instruction-level parallelism, leading to higher performance. However, in...
Steven E. Raasch, Nathan L. Binkert, Steven K. Rei...
We develop an availability solution, called SafetyNet, that uses a unified, lightweight checkpoint/recovery mechanism to support multiple long-latency fault detection schemes. At...
Daniel J. Sorin, Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, ...