SBACPAD
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Complexity is one of the most important problems facing microarchitects. It is exacerbated by the application of optimizations, by scaling to higher issue widths and, in general, ...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Scratchpad memory (SPM), a fast software-managed onchip SRAM, is now widely used in modern embedded processors. Compared to hardware-managed cache, it is more efficient in perfor...
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IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper presents a novel compiler directed technique to reduce the register pressure and power of the register file by releasing registers early. The compiler identifies regi...
DSN
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Protecting the register value and its data buses is crucial to reliable computing in high-performance microprocessors due to the increasing susceptibility of CMOS circuitry to sof...
ISVLSI
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Designing high-performance low-power register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply-pipelined superscalar m...
DATE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
In current embedded systems processors, multi-ported register files are one of the most power hungry parts of the processor, even when they are clustered. This paper presents a n...
DATE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we ...