Recent research on processor microarchitecture suggests using instruction criticality as a metric to guide hardware control policies. Fields et al. [3, 4] have proposed a directed...
Efficient use of the memory hierarchy is critical for achieving high performance in a multiprocessor systemon-chip. An external memory that is shared between processors is a bottl...
Arno Moonen, Marco Bekooij, Rene van den Berg, Jef...
—The impact of shared instruction memory on performance is measured and analyzed for an FPGAbased Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) with an MPEG-4 video encoding application...
Ari Kulmala, Erno Salminen, Olli Lehtoranta, Timo ...
High-performance multiprocessor systems built around out-of-order processors with aggressive branch predictors execute many memory references that turn out to be on a mispredicted...
Resit Sendag, Ayse Yilmazer, Joshua J. Yi, Augustu...
Although they have been the main server technology for many years, multiprocessors are undergoing a renaissance due to multi-core chips and the attractive scalability properties of...