MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
Soft error reliability is increasingly becoming a first-order design concern for microprocessors, as a result of higher transistor counts, shrinking device geometries and lowering ...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
Efficient management of last level caches (LLCs) plays an important role in bridging the performance gap between processor cores and main memory. This paper is motivated by two key...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
This paper presents ReMAP, a reconfigurable architecture geared towards accelerating and parallelizing applications within a heterogeneous CMP. In ReMAP, threads share a common rec...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
To extend the exponential performance scaling of future chip multiprocessors, improving energy efficiency has become a first-class priority. Single-chip heterogeneous computing ha...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract--Parallel programming is hard, because it is impractical to test all possible thread interleavings. One promising approach to improve a multi-threaded program's relia...
ISQED
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
This paper studies multi-core clock distribution using active deskewing methods. We propose an efficient methodology that uses Verilog-A to model PLLs, clock trees and power suppl...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
DRAM power and energy efficiency considerations are becoming increasingly important for low-power and mobile systems. Using lower power modes provided by commodity DRAM chips redu...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Abstract--As a replacement for the fast-fading GloballySynchronous model, we have defined a flexible design style called GRLS, for Globally-Ratiochronous, Locally-Synchronous, whic...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Power has become the most critical design constraint for embedded handheld devices. This paper proposes a power-efficient SIMD architecture, referred to as Diet SODA, for DSP appl...
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Capturing network traffic with commodity hardware has become a feasible task: Advances in hardware as well as software have boosted off-the-shelf hardware to performance levels th...