MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
One of the major issues faced by the semiconductor industry today is that of reducing chip yields. As the process technologies have scaled to smaller feature sizes, chip yields ha...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
We propose and evaluate a multi-thread memory scheduler that targets high performance CMPs. The proposed memory scheduler is based on concepts originally developed for network fai...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Power delivery is a growing reliability concern in microprocessors as the industry moves toward feature-rich, powerhungrier designs. To battle the ever-aggravating power consumpti...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Ring interconnects may be an attractive solution for future chip multiprocessors because they can enable faster links than buses and simpler switches than arbitrary switched inter...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
VLIW and EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures rely on compilers to form high-quality hyperblocks for good performance. These compilers typically perform hyperblock f...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Dynamic software bug detection tools are commonly used because they leverage run-time information. However, they suffer from a fundamental limitation, the Path Coverage Problem: t...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Design variability due to die-to-die and within-die process variations has the potential to significantly reduce the maximum operating frequency and the effective yield of high-p...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Although silicon optical technology is still in its formative stages, and the more near-term application is chip-to-chip communication, rapid advances have been made in the develo...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Designing and optimizing high performance microprocessors is an increasingly difficult task due to the size and complexity of the processor design space, high cost of detailed si...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
We present Adaptive Stream Detection, a simple technique for modulating the aggressiveness of a stream prefetcher to match a workload’s observed spatial locality. We use this co...