Building a high-performance microprocessor presents many reliability challenges. Designers must verify the correctness of large complex systems and construct implementations that ...
Heat is a main concern for processors in deep sub-micron technologies. The chip temperature is affected by both the power consumption of processor components and the chip layout....
The progressive trend of fabrication technologies towards the nanometer regime has created a number of new physical design challenges for computer architects. Design complexity, u...
Todd M. Austin, Valeria Bertacco, David Blaauw, Tr...