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Security is critical to a wide range of wireless data applications and services. While several security mechanisms and protocols have been developed in the context of the wired In...
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Traditional pulldown comparators that are used to implement associativeaddressing logic in superscalar microprocessors dissipate energy on a mismatch in any bit position in the co...
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High-performance processors use a large set–associative L1 data cache with multiple ports. As clock speeds and size increase such a cache consumes a significant percentage of t...
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We describe an optimization strategy for minimizing total power consumption using dual threshold voltage (Vth) technology. Significant power savings are possible by simultaneous a...
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The increase in high-performance microprocessor power consumption is due in part to the large power overhead of wideissue, highly speculative cores. Microarchitectural speculation...
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High performance processors use checkpointing to rapidly recover from branch mispredictions and possibly other exceptions. We demonstrate that conventional checkpointing becomes u...
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Multivoltage scheduling (MVS) for datapaths offers the energy savings of voltage scaling on a per-operation basis with a voltage aware operator scheduling. This work investigates...
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In this paper, we investigate methods for improving the hit rates in the first level of memory hierarchy. Particularly, we propose victim cache structures to reduce the number of ...
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Modern superscalar processors implement precise interrupts by using the Reorder Buffer (ROB). In some microarchitectures , such as the Intel P6, the ROB also serves as a repositor...
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Low power technology is impacting our society by creating the newly emerging digital consumer market, which leads to the nomadic life-style. In this paper, historical review of th...