MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
As demand for bandwidth increases in systems-on-a-chip and chip multiprocessors, networks are fast replacing buses and dedicated wires as the pervasive interconnect fabric for on-...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Due to the widespread software piracy and virus attacks, significant efforts have been made to improve security for computer systems. For stand-alone computers, a key observation...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
High-performance caches statically pull up the bitlines in all cache subarrays to optimize cache access latency. Unfortunately, such an architecture results in a significant wast...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Silicon technology will continue to provide an exponential increase in the availability of raw transistors. Effectively translating this resource into application performance, how...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper describes several methods for improving the scalability of memory disambiguation hardware for future high ILP processors. As the number of in-flight instructions grows...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Data-parallel programs are both growing in importance and increasing in diversity, resulting in specialized processors targeted at specific classes of these programs. This paper ...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Traditional software controlled data cache prefetching is often ineffective due to the lack of runtime cache miss and miss address information. To overcome this limitation, we imp...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
With faster CPU clocks and wider pipelines, all relevant microarchitecture components should scale accordingly. There have been many proposals for scaling the issue queue, registe...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Energy-efficient processor design is becoming more and more important with technology scaling and with high performance requirements. Supply-voltage scaling is an efficient way to...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Single-event upsets from particle strikes have become a key challenge in microprocessor design. Techniques to deal with these transient faults exist, but come at a cost. Designers...