Abstract--Adaptive microarchitectures are a promising solution for designing high-performance, power-efficient microprocessors. They offer the ability to tailor computational resou...
Christophe Dubach, Timothy M. Jones, Edwin V. Boni...
Program runtime characteristics exhibit significant variation. As microprocessor architectures become more complex, their efficiency depends on the capability of adapting with wor...
Transient faults due to particle strikes are a key challenge in microprocessor design. Driven by exponentially increasing transistor counts, per-chip faults are a growing burden. ...
Kristen R. Walcott, Greg Humphreys, Sudhanva Gurum...
This paper presents an analytical model to predict the performance of general-purpose applications on a GPU architecture. The model is designed to provide performance information ...
Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Matthieu Delahaye, Sanjay J. P...
Microprocessor designers use techniques such as clock gating to reduce power dissipation. An unfortunate side-effect of these techniques is the processor current fluctuations th...