Starting from the 90nm technology node, process induced stress has played a key role in the design of highperformance devices. The emergence of source/drain silicon germanium (S/D ...
Memory latency tolerant architectures support thousands of in-flight instructions without scaling cyclecritical processor resources, and thousands of useful instructions can compl...
Amit Gandhi, Haitham Akkary, Ravi Rajwar, Srikanth...
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...