MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Heterogeneous multiprocessors are growingly important in the multi-core era due to their potential for high performance and energy efficiency. In order for software to fully real...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Process variations in integrated circuits have significant impact on their performance, leakage and stability. This is particularly evident in large, regular and dense structures...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based ...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology that can increase main memory capacity in a cost-effective and power-efficient manner. However, PCM cells can endure on...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Despite flash memory’s promise, it suffers from many idiosyncrasies such as limited durability, data integrity problems, and asymmetry in operation granularity. As architects, ...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
DRAM systems achieve high performance when all DRAM banks are busy servicing useful memory requests. The degree to which DRAM banks are busy is called DRAM Bank-Level Parallelism ...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Recent micro-architectural research has proposed various schemes to enhance processors with additional tags to track various properties of a program. Such a technique, which is us...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Many-core scaling now faces a power wall. The gap between the number of cores that fit on a die and the number that can operate simultaneously under the power budget is rapidly i...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Continued technology scaling is resulting in systems with billions of devices. Unfortunately, these devices are prone to failures from various sources, resulting in even commodity...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
Cache blocks often exhibit a small number of uses during their life time in the last-level cache. Past research has exploited this property in two different ways. First, replacem...