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HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An approach for implementing efficient superscalar CISC processors
An integrated, hardware / software co-designed CISC processor is proposed and analyzed. The objectives are high performance and reduced complexity. Although the x86 ISA is targete...
Shiliang Hu, Ilhyun Kim, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E...
SIPEW
2009
Springer
119views Hardware» more  SIPEW 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
A Tale of Two Processors: Revisiting the RISC-CISC Debate
The contentious debates between RISC and CISC have died down, and a CISC ISA, the x86 continues to be popular. Nowadays, processors with CISC-ISAs translate the CISC instructions i...
Ciji Isen, Lizy K. John, Eugene John
MICRO
1995
IEEE
97views Hardware» more  MICRO 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Improving CISC instruction decoding performance using a fill unit
Current superscalar processors, both RISC and CISC, require substantial instruction fetch and decode bandwidth to keep multiple functional units utilized. While CISC instructions ...
Mark Smotherman, Manoj Franklin
ISLPED
2003
ACM
95views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Power efficient comparators for long arguments in superscalar processors
Traditional pulldown comparators that are used to implement associativeaddressing logic in superscalar microprocessors dissipate energy on a mismatch in any bit position in the co...
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Configuration Steering for a Reconfigurable Superscalar Processor
An architecture for a reconfigurable superscalar processor is described in which some of its execution units are implemented in reconfigurable hardware. The overall configuration ...
Brian F. Veale, John K. Antonio, Monte P. Tull