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2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
In-Register Duplication: Exploiting Narrow-Width Value for Improving Register File Reliability
Protecting the register value and its data buses is crucial to reliable computing in high-performance microprocessors due to the increasing susceptibility of CMOS circuitry to sof...
Jie Hu, Shuai Wang, Sotirios G. Ziavras
DATE
2009
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting narrow-width values for thermal-aware register file designs
—Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we ...
Shuai Wang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Sung Woo ...
ISVLSI
2007
IEEE
127views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Asymmetrically Banked Value-Aware Register Files
Designing high-performance low-power register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply-pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziav...
MAM
2008
114views more  MAM 2008»
13 years 3 months ago
Asymmetrically banked value-aware register files for low-energy and high-performance
Designing high-performance low-energy register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie S. Hu, Sotirios G. Z...
ISLPED
2006
ACM
100views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Selective writeback: exploiting transient values for energy-efficiency and performance
Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...