The evolution of deep submicron technologies allows the development of increasingly complex Systems on a Chip (SoC). However, this evolution is rendering less viable some well-est...
Julian J. H. Pontes, Matheus T. Moreira, Rafael So...
Large digital chips use a significant amount of energy to distribute a multi-GHz clock. By discharging the clock network to ground every cycle, the energy stored in this large cap...
Mehdi Alimadadi, Samad Sheikhaei, Guy Lemieux, Sha...
Powerful branch predictors along with a large branch target buffer (BTB) are employed in superscalar processors for instruction-level parallelism exploitation. However, the large ...