—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...
Different approaches have been proposed over the years for automatically transforming High-Level-Languages (HLL) descriptions of applications into custom hardware implementations. ...
— Matrix inversion is a common function found in many algorithms used in wireless communication systems. As FPGAs become an increasingly attractive platform for wireless communic...
Ali Irturk, Bridget Benson, Shahnam Mirzaei, Ryan ...
— Processor architectures with large instruction windows have been proposed to expose more instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and increase performance. Some of the proposed arch...
Isidro Gonzalez, Marco Galluzzi, Alexander V. Veid...
Traditional coherence protocols present a set of difficult tradeoffs: the reliance of snoopy protocols on broadcast and ordered interconnects limits their scalability, while dire...
Parameter variation in integrated circuits causes sections of a chip to be slower than others. If, to prevent any resulting timing errors, we design processors for worst-case para...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, Abhishek Tiwari...
—Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI), which reduces the lifetime of PMOS transistors, is becoming a growing reliability concern for sub-micrometer CMOS technologies. Par...
Shrinking transistor sizes and a trend toward low-power processors have caused increased leakage, high per-device variation and a larger number of hard and soft errors. Maintainin...
Existing DRAM controllers employ rigid, non-adaptive scheduling and buffer management policies when servicing prefetch requests. Some controllers treat prefetch requests the same ...
Scaling of CMOS feature size has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, the reduction in voltage levels has not been able to match this rate of scaling, leadin...
Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Amin Ansari, Jason ...