MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology that can increase main memory capacity in a cost-effective and power-efficient manner. However, PCM cells can endure on...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Despite flash memory’s promise, it suffers from many idiosyncrasies such as limited durability, data integrity problems, and asymmetry in operation granularity. As architects, ...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
DRAM systems achieve high performance when all DRAM banks are busy servicing useful memory requests. The degree to which DRAM banks are busy is called DRAM Bank-Level Parallelism ...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Recent micro-architectural research has proposed various schemes to enhance processors with additional tags to track various properties of a program. Such a technique, which is us...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Many-core scaling now faces a power wall. The gap between the number of cores that fit on a die and the number that can operate simultaneously under the power budget is rapidly i...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Continued technology scaling is resulting in systems with billions of devices. Unfortunately, these devices are prone to failures from various sources, resulting in even commodity...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Cache blocks often exhibit a small number of uses during their life time in the last-level cache. Past research has exploited this property in two different ways. First, replacem...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Building an optimising compiler is a difficult and time consuming task which must be repeated for each generation of a microprocessor. As the underlying microarchitecture changes...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Aggressive prefetching is very beneficial for memory latency tolerance of many applications. However, it faces significant challenges in multi-core systems. Prefetchers of diff...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
High assurance systems such as those found in aircraft controls and the financial industry are often required to handle a mix of tasks where some are niceties (such as the contro...