MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
The Dynamic Execution Layer Interface (DELI) offers the following unique capability: it provides fine-grain control over the execution of programs, by allowing its clients to obse...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents Vacuum Packing, a new approach to profile-based program optimization. Instead of using traditional aggregate or summarized execution profile weights, this ap...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
In a 64-bit processor, many of the data values actually used in computations require much narrower data-widths. In this study, we demonstrate that instruction data-widths exhibit ...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
A value’s degree of use—the number of dynamic uses of that value—provides the most essential information needed to optimize its communication. We present simulation results ...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Data prefetching effectively reduces the negative effects of long load latencies on the performance of modern processors. Hardware prefetchers employ hardware structures to predic...
ITC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
1 This paper presents a test input data compression technique, which can be used to reduce input test data volume, test time, and the number of required tester channels. The techni...
ITC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
—Logic optimization is the step of the very large scale integration (VLSI) design cycle where the designer performs modifications on a design to satisfy different constraints suc...
ITC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Conventional fault simulation techniques for FPGAs are very complicated and time consuming. The other alternative, FPGA fault emulation technique, is incomplete, and can be used o...
ITC
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
The continued market demand for GHz processors and high-capacity communication systems results in an increasing number of low-cost high volume ICs with multi-GHz clocks and/or mul...