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2006
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Selective writeback: exploiting transient values for energy-efficiency and performance
Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...
MAM
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Asymmetrically banked value-aware register files for low-energy and high-performance
Designing high-performance low-energy register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie S. Hu, Sotirios G. Z...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Very wide register: an asymmetric register file organization for low power embedded processors
In current embedded systems processors, multi-ported register files are one of the most power hungry parts of the processor, even when they are clustered. This paper presents a n...
Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala...
ASAP
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Energy Aware Register File Implementation through Instruction Predecode
The register file is a power-hungry device in modern architectures. Current research on compiler technology and computer architectures encourages the implementation of larger dev...
José L. Ayala, Marisa Luisa López-Va...