ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
Leakage power is dominated by critical paths, and hence dynamic deactivation of fast transistors can yield large savings. We introduce metrics for comparing fine-grain dynamic de...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
The impact of pipeline length on the performance of a microprocessor is explored both theoretically and by simulation. An analytical theory is presented that shows two opposing ar...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
On-chip caches represent a sizable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have the potential...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
Many emerging processor microarchitectures seek to manage technological constraints (e.g., wire delay, power, and circuit complexity) by resorting to nonuniform designs that provi...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
Tarantula is an aggressive floating point machine targeted at technical, scientific and bioinformatics workloads, originally planned as a follow-on candidate to the EV8 processo...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
An increasingly large portion of scheduler latency is derived from the monolithic content addressable memory (CAM) arrays accessed during instruction wakeup. The performance of th...