A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based ...
Jason Zebchuk, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, Moinuddin...
Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Large SRAM structures used for caches are particularly ...
Amin Ansari, Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Scott ...
With continued advances in CMOS technology, parameter variations are emerging as a major design challenge. Irregularities during the fabrication of a microprocessor and variations...
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Jude A. Rivers, Pradip Bose, G...
Transactional Memory aims to provide a programming model that makes parallel programming easier. Hardware implementations of transactional memory (HTM) suffer from fewer overhead...
Sasa Tomic, Cristian Perfumo, Chinmay Eishan Kulka...
With transistor miniaturization leading to an abundance of on-chip resources and uniprocessor designs providing diminishing returns, the industry has moved beyond single-core micr...