This paper presents FlexiTaint, a hardware accelerator for dynamic taint propagation. FlexiTaint is implemented as an in-order addition to the back-end of the processor pipeline, ...
Guru Venkataramani, Ioannis Doudalis, Yan Solihin,...
Utilizing the nonuniform latencies of SDRAM devices, access reordering mechanisms alter the sequence of main memory access streams to reduce the observed access latency. Using a r...
An integrated, hardware / software co-designed CISC processor is proposed and analyzed. The objectives are high performance and reduced complexity. Although the x86 ISA is targete...
Shiliang Hu, Ilhyun Kim, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E...
The memory system's large and growing contribution to system performance motivates more aggressive approaches to improving its efficiency. We propose and analyze a memory hie...
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...