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HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Heat Stroke: Power-Density-Based Denial of Service in SMT
In the past, there have been several denial-of-service (DOS) attacks which exhaust some shared resource (e.g., physical memory, process table, file descriptors, TCP connections) ...
Jahangir Hasan, Ankit Jalote, T. N. Vijaykumar, Ca...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Microarchitectural Wire Management for Performance and Power in Partitioned Architectures
Future high-performance billion-transistor processors are likely to employ partitioned architectures to achieve high clock speeds, high parallelism, low design complexity, and low...
Rajeev Balasubramonian, Naveen Muralimanohar, Kart...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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MARS: an education-oriented MIPS assembly language simulator
We describe the implementation of “MARS,” a GUI, Java-based simulator for the MIPS assembly language. MIPS, the computer architecture underlying the simulated assembly languag...
Kenneth Vollmar, Pete Sanderson
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A fast on-chip decoupling capacitance budgeting algorithm using macromodeling and linear programming
We propose a novel and efficient charge-based decoupling capacitance budgeting algorithm. Our method uses the macromodeling technique and effective radius of decoupling capacitan...
Min Zhao, Rajendran Panda, Savithri Sundareswaran,...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
High-performance operating system controlled memory compression
This article describes a new software-based on-line memory compression algorithm for embedded systems and presents a method of adaptively managing the uncompressed and compressed ...
Lei Yang, Haris Lekatsas, Robert P. Dick
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Entering the hot zone: can you handle the heat and be cool?
A. Yang, R. Chandra, S. Burke, J. A. DeLaCruz, S. ...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A systematic method for functional unit power estimation in microprocessors
We present a new method for mathematically estimating the active unit power of functional units in modern microprocessors such as the Pentium 4 family. Our method leverages the ph...
Wei Wu, Lingling Jin, Jun Yang 0002, Pu Liu, Sheld...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling and minimization of PMOS NBTI effect for robust nanometer design
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become the dominant reliability concern for nanoscale PMOS transistors. In this paper, a predictive model is developed for the deg...
Rakesh Vattikonda, Wenping Wang, Yu Cao
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
SystemC transaction level models and RTL verification
This paper describes how systems companies are adopting SystemC transaction level models for system on chip design and verification, and how these transaction level models are bei...
Stuart Swan
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
"The IC nanometer race -- what will it take to win?"
: Creating ICs in the nanometer age is a high-stakes race that few companies can afford to compete in – and even fewer can win. Hear how senior technologists from the world’s t...
G. Singer, Philippe Magarshack, Dennis Buss, F.-C....