ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Increasing the number of instruction queue (IQ) entries in a dynamically scheduled processor exposes more instruction-level parallelism, leading to higher performance. However, in...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents ReVive, a novel general-purpose rollback recovery mechanism for shared-memory multiprocessors. ReVive carefully balances the conflicting requirements of avail...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Exponential growth in the number of on-chip transistors, coupled with reductions in voltage levels, makes each generation of microprocessors increasingly vulnerable to transient f...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Instruction window size is an important design parameter for many modern processors. Large instruction windows offer the potential advantage of exposing large amounts of instructi...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper investigates a class of main memory accesses (invalid memory traffic) that can be eliminated altogether. Invalid memory traffic is real data traffic that transfers inva...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
An instruction set architecture (ISA) suitable for future microprocessor design constraints is proposed. The ISA has hierarchical register files with a small number of accumulator...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
The number of pipeline stages separating dynamic instruction scheduling from instruction execution has increased considerably in recent out-of-order microprocessor implementations...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
The importance of the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) on system performance is well known. There have been numerous prior efforts addressing TLB design issues for cutting down ...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2002
IEEE
Due to shrinking technologies and increasing design sizes, it is becoming more difficult and expensive to distribute a global clock signal with low skew throughout a processor di...