Distributed wireless ad-hoc networks (DWANs) pose numerous technical challenges. Among them, two are widely considered as crucial: autonomous localized operation and minimization ...
Farinaz Koushanfar, Abhijit Davare, Dai Tho Nguyen...
Modern superscalar processors implement precise interrupts by using the Reorder Buffer (ROB). In some microarchitectures , such as the Intel P6, the ROB also serves as a repositor...
Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
The increase in high-performance microprocessor power consumption is due in part to the large power overhead of wideissue, highly speculative cores. Microarchitectural speculation...
Karthik Natarajan, Heather Hanson, Stephen W. Keck...
We describe an optimization strategy for minimizing total power consumption using dual threshold voltage (Vth) technology. Significant power savings are possible by simultaneous a...
David Nguyen, Abhijit Davare, Michael Orshansky, D...
High-performance processors use a large set–associative L1 data cache with multiple ports. As clock speeds and size increase such a cache consumes a significant percentage of t...
Dan Nicolaescu, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Alexandru...