MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
We introduce techniques to support efficient non-atomic execution of very long traces on a new binary translation based, x86-64 compatible VLIW microprocessor. Incrementally comm...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
We present the TM3270 media-processor, the latest TriMedia VLIW processor, tuned to address the performance demands of standard definition video processing, combined with embedded...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an effective technique for controlling microprocessor energy and performance. Existing DVFS techniques are primarily based on hardw...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper describes a scalable, low-complexity alternative to the conventional load/store queue (LSQ) for superscalar processors that execute load and store instructions speculat...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Conventional processors use a fully-associative store queue (SQ) to implement store-load forwarding. Associative search latency does not scale well to capacities and bandwidths re...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
As more data value speculation mechanisms are being proposed to speed-up processors, there is growing pressure on the critical processor structures that must buffer the state of t...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Clustered machines partition hardware resources to circumvent the cycle time penalties incurred by large, monolithic structures. This partitioning introduces a long inter-cluster ...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Recent experimental advances have demonstrated technologies capable of supporting scalable quantum computation. A critical next step is how to put those technologies together into...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Data prefetching via helper threading has been extensively investigated on Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) or Virtual Multi-Threading (VMT) architectures. Although reportedly la...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Until recently, a steadily rising clock rate and other uniprocessor microarchitectural improvements could be relied upon to consistently deliver increasing performance for a wide ...