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LCTRTS
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Cache vulnerability equations for protecting data in embedded processor caches from soft errors
Continuous technology scaling has brought us to a point, where transistors have become extremely susceptible to cosmic radiation strikes, or soft errors. Inside the processor, cac...
Aviral Shrivastava, Jongeun Lee, Reiley Jeyapaul
FCCM
2011
IEEE
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12 years 9 months ago
Reducing the Energy Cost of Irregular Code Bases in Soft Processor Systems
— This paper describes an architecture and FPGA synthesis toolchain for building specialized, energy-saving coprocessors called Irregular Code Energy Reducers (ICERs) for a wide ...
Manish Arora, Jack Sampson, Nathan Goulding-Hotta,...
ISCA
2003
IEEE
101views Hardware» more  ISCA 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Overcoming the Limitations of Conventional Vector Processors
Despite their superior performance for multimedia applications, vector processors have three limitations that hinder their widespread acceptance. First, the complexity and size of...
Christoforos E. Kozyrakis, David A. Patterson
ICCS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Performance and Scalability Analysis of Cray X1 Vectorization and Multistreaming Optimization
Cray X1 Fortran and C/C++ compilers provide a number of loop transformations, notably vectorization and multistreaming, in order to exploit the multistreaming processor (MSP) hard...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeffrey S. Vetter
DSN
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
ReStore: Symptom Based Soft Error Detection in Microprocessors
Device scaling and large scale integration have led to growing concerns about soft errors in microprocessors. To date, in all but the most demanding applications, implementing par...
Nicholas J. Wang, Sanjay J. Patel