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2006
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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,...
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2006
ACM
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Reducing power through compiler-directed barrier synchronization elimination
Interprocessor synchronization, while extremely important for ensuring execution correctness, can be very costly in terms of both power and performance overheads. Unfortunately, m...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Seung Woo Son
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2006
ACM
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Substituting associative load queue with simple hash tables in out-of-order microprocessors
Buffering more in-flight instructions in an out-of-order microprocessor is a straightforward and effective method to help tolerate the long latencies generally associated with ...
Alok Garg, Fernando Castro, Michael C. Huang, Dani...
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2006
ACM
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Dynamic thermal clock skew compensation using tunable delay buffers
—The thermal gradients existing in high-performance circuits may significantly affect their timing behavior, in particular, by increasing the skew of the clock net and/or alteri...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Karthik Duraisami, Ashoka Vi...
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2006
ACM
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Low power light-weight embedded systems
Light-weight embedded systems are now gaining more popularity due to the recent technological advances in fabrication that have resulted in more powerful tiny processors with grea...
Majid Sarrafzadeh, Foad Dabiri, Roozbeh Jafari, Ta...