MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Attacking bottlenecks in modern processors is difficult because many microarchitectural events overlap with each other. This parallelism makes it difficult to both (a) assign a ...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
With increasing clock frequencies and silicon integration, power aware computing has become a critical concern in the design of embedded processors and systems-on-chip. One of the...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Detecting program phase changes accurately is an important aspect of dynamically adaptable systems. Three dynamic program phase detection techniques are compared – using instruc...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
It is widely accepted that the disproportionate scaling of transistor and conventional on-chip interconnect performance presents a major barrier to future high performance systems...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
The physical register file is an important component of a dynamically-scheduled processor. Increasing the amount of parallelism places increasing demands on the physical register...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Large instruction window processors achieve high performance by exposing large amounts of instruction level parallelism. However, accessing large hardware structures typically req...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
A virtual instruction set architecture (V-ISA) implemented via a processor-specific software translation layer can provide great flexibility to processor designers. Recent examp...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Application-specific extensions to the computational capabilities of a processor provide an efficient mechanism to meet the growing performance and power demands of embedded appl...