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ISCA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips
Due to their high volume, general-purpose processors, and now chip multiprocessors (CMPs), are much more cost effective than ASICs, but lag significantly in terms of performance a...
Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer, Megan Wachs, Omid Az...
TVLSI
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Application of instruction analysis/scheduling techniques to resource allocation of superscalar processors
This paper presents the development of instruction analysis/scheduling CAD techniques to measure the distribution of functional unit usage and the micro operation level parallelis...
Ing-Jer Huang, Ping-Huei Xie
ISCA
1992
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
An Elementary Processor Architecture with Simultaneous Instruction Issuing from Multiple Threads
In this paper, we propose a multithreaded processor architecture which improves machine throughput. In our processor architecture, instructions from different threads (not a singl...
Hiroaki Hirata, Kozo Kimura, Satoshi Nagamine, Yos...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic Functional Unit Assignment for Low Power
A hardware method for functional unit assignment is presented, based on the principle that a functional unit’s power consumption is approximated by the switching activity of its...
Steve Haga, Natasha Reeves, Rajeev Barua, Diana Ma...
IPCCC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Compiler-Directed Functional Unit Shutdown for Microarchitecture Power Optimization
Leakage power is a major concern in current microarchitectures as it is increasing exponentially with decreasing transistor feature sizes. In this paper, we present a technique ca...
Santosh Talli, Ram Srinivasan, Jeanine Cook
DATE
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Area optimization of multi-cycle operators in high-level synthesis
Conventional high-level synthesis algorithms usually employ multi-cycle operators to reduce the cycle length in order to improve the circuit performance. These operators need seve...
María C. Molina, Rafael Ruiz-Sautua, Jose M...