MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Shrinking transistor sizes and a trend toward low-power processors have caused increased leakage, high per-device variation and a larger number of hard and soft errors. Maintainin...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Existing DRAM controllers employ rigid, non-adaptive scheduling and buffer management policies when servicing prefetch requests. Some controllers treat prefetch requests the same ...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Scaling of CMOS feature size has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, the reduction in voltage levels has not been able to match this rate of scaling, leadin...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Hardware signatures have been recently proposed as an efficient mechanism to detect conflicts amongst concurrently running transactions in transactional memory systems (e.g., Bulk...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
With the multitude of existing and upcoming wireless standards, it is becoming increasingly difficult for hardware-only baseband processing solutions to adapt to the rapidly chan...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
As the number of transistors integrated on a chip continues to increase, a growing challenge is accurately modeling performance in the early stages of processor design. Analytical...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Heavyweight security analysis systems, such as taint analysis and dynamic type checking, are powerful technologies used to detect security vulnerabilities and software bugs. Tradi...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Visualization, interaction, and simulation (VIS) constitute a class of applications that is growing in importance. This class includes applications such as graphics rendering, vid...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Any architectural optimization aims at satisfying the end user. However, modern architectures execute with little to no knowledge about the individual user. If architectures could...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
It is well recognized that LRU cache-line replacement can be ineffective for applications with large working sets or non-localized memory access patterns. Specifically, in lastle...