HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
We investigate coding techniques to reduce the energy consumed by on-chip buses in a microprocessor. We explore several simple coding schemes and simulate them using a modified Si...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper focuses on generating efficient software pipelined schedules for in-order machines, which we call Converged Trace Schedules. For a candidate loop, we form a string of t...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Much research has been devoted to making microprocessors energy-efficient. However, little attention has been paid to multiprocessor environments where, due to the co-operative na...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Data communications between producer instructions and consumer instructions through memory incur extra delays that degrade processor performance. In this paper, we introduce a new...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Modern microprocessors adopt speculative scheduling techniques where instructions are scheduled several clock cycles before they actually execute. Due to this scheduling delay, sc...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Using alternative cache indexing/hashing functions is a popular technique to reduce conflict misses by achieving a more uniform cache access distribution across the sets in the ca...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
As microprocessors become increasingly complex, the techniques used to analyze and predict their behavior must become increasingly rigorous. This paper applies wavelet analysis te...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Many current programmable architectures designed to exploit data parallelism require computation to be structured to operate on sequentially accessed vectors or streams of data. A...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Modern out-of-order processors tolerate long latency memory operations by supporting a large number of inflight instructions. This is particularly useful in numerical applications...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
Recent research suggests that there are large variations in a cache's spatial usage, both within and across programs. Unfortunately, conventional caches typically employ fixe...