MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
Power consumption and power density for the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) are important considerations not only in its design, but can have a consequence on cache design as w...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
Research has shown that precomputation microthreads can be useful for improving branch prediction and prefetching. However, it is not obvious how to provide the necessary microarc...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Master/Slave Speculative Parallelization (MSSP) is an execution paradigm for improving the execution rate of sequential programs by parallelizing them speculatively for execution ...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Excessive power consumption is widely considered as a major impediment to designing future microprocessors. With the continued scaling down of threshold voltages, the power consum...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
With the prevalence of server blades and systems-ona-chip (SoCs), interconnection networks are becoming an important part of the microprocessor landscape. However, there is limite...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
To find the best designs, architects must rapidly simulate many design alternatives and have confidence in the results. Unfortunately, the most prevalent simulator construction ...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Recently, graphics hardware architectures have begun to emphasize versatility, offering rich new ways to programmatically reconfigure the graphics pipeline. In this paper, we exp...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
During the concept phase and definition of next generation high-end processors, power and performance will need to be weighted appropriately to deliver competitive cost/performan...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
We describe the design, analysis, and performance of an on–line algorithm to dynamically control the frequency/voltage of a Multiple Clock Domain (MCD) microarchitecture. The MC...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Pre-execution attacks cache misses for which conventional address-prediction driven prefetching is ineffective. In pre-execution, copies of cache miss computations are isolated fr...