MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
Recently, the microprocessor industry has moved toward chip multiprocessor (CMP) designs as a means of utilizing the increasing transistor counts in the face of physical and micro...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
Aggressive technology scaling over the years has helped improve processor performance but has caused a reduction in processor reliability. Shrinking transistor sizes and lower sup...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
Program runtime characteristics exhibit significant variation. As microprocessor architectures become more complex, their efficiency depends on the capability of adapting with wor...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
A significant part of future microprocessor real estate will be dedicated to L2 or L3 caches. These on-chip caches will heavily impact processor performance, power dissipation, a...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
This paper describes FAST, a novel simulation methodology that can produce simulators that (i) are orders of magnitude faster than comparable simulators, (ii) are cycleaccurate, (...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
Technology scaling, characterized by decreasing feature size, thinning gate oxide, and non-ideal voltage scaling, will become a major hindrance to microprocessor reliability in fu...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
Parameter variation is detrimental to a processor’s frequency and leakage power. One proposed technique to mitigate it is Fine-Grain Body Biasing (FGBB), where different parts o...
MICRO
2007
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
2007
IEEE
The trends in enterprise IT toward service-oriented computing, server consolidation, and virtual computing point to a future in which workloads are becoming increasingly diverse i...