Register files (RF) represent a substantial portion of the energy budget in modern processors, and are growing rapidly with the trend towards wider instruction issue. The actual ...
The storage for speculative values in superscalar processors is one of the main sources of complexity and power dissipation. In this paper, we present a novel technique to reduce ...
Register files of microprocessors have often been cited as performance bottlenecks and significant consumers of energy. The robust and modular nature of quasi-delay insensitive (Q...
We present a technique for reducing the power dissipation in the course of writebacks and committments in a datapath that uses a dedicated architectural register file (ARF) to hol...
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
Multiported register files are a critical component of high-performance superscalar microprocessors. Conventional multiported structures can consume significant power and die ar...