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IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Enhancing the effectiveness of utilizing an instruction register file
This paper describes the outcomes of the NSF Grant CNS-0615085: CSR-EHS: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Utilizing an Instruction Register File. We improved promoting instructions ...
David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson
ISVLSI
2007
IEEE
127views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2007»
14 years 2 days ago
Asymmetrically Banked Value-Aware Register Files
Designing high-performance low-power 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 Hu, Sotirios G. Ziav...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ICCD 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Reducing Operand Transport Complexity of Superscalar Processors using Distributed Register Files
A critical problem in wide-issue superscalar processors is the limit on cycle time imposed by the central register file and operand bypass network. In this paper, a distributed re...
Santithorn Bunchua, D. Scott Wills, Linda M. Wills
ICCD
2006
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Reduce Register Files Leakage Through Discharging Cells
— We propose a low-leakage register file cell design based on the observation that the physical registers in a superscalar processor have very short life cycles. When a register...
Lingling Jin, Wei Wu, Jun Yang 0002, Chuanjun Zhan...
ISLPED
2007
ACM
75views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Minimizing power dissipation during write operation to register files
This paper presents a power reduction mechanism for the write operation in register files (RegFiles), which adds a conditional charge-sharing structure to the pair of complementar...
Kimish Patel, Wonbok Lee, Massoud Pedram