Multicore architectures have been ruling the recent microprocessor design trend. This is due to different reasons: better performance, thread-level parallelism bounds in modern app...
Matteo Monchiero, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonzá...
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....
This paper explores the multi-dimensional design space for chip multiprocessors, exploring the inter-related variables of core count, pipeline depth, superscalar width, L2 cache s...
Yingmin Li, Benjamin C. Lee, David Brooks, Zhigang...
Multi-core architectures introduce a new granularity at which process variations may occur, yielding asymmetry among cores that were designed—and that software expects—to be s...
Program runtime characteristics exhibit significant variation. As microprocessor architectures become more complex, their efficiency depends on the capability of adapting with wor...