EUROPAR
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. We present a hardware mechanism which dynamically detects uniform and affine vectors used in Graphics Processing Units, to minimize pressure on the register file and redu...
DSN
2009
IEEE
2009
IEEE
Processor reliability enhancement through compiler-directed register file peak temperature reduction
13 years 9 months ago
Each semiconductor technology generation brings us closer to the imminent processor architecture heat wall, with all its associated adverse effects on system performance and reliab...
MICRO
1994
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1994
IEEE
Exploitation of large amounts of instruction level parallelism requires a large amount of connectivity between the shared register file and the function units; this connectivity i...
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1996
ACM
In this paper, we outline general design steps of our synthesis tool to realize application specific co-processors such that for a given scientific application having intensive ite...
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1996
IEEE
Multiple instruction issue processors place high demands on register file bandwidth. One solution to reduce this bottleneck is the use of multiple register files. Register allocat...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
The inherent instruction-level parallelism (ILP) of current applications (specially those based on floating point computations) has driven hardware designers and compilers writers...
ASPLOS
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2000
ACM
The high arithmetic rates of media processing applications require architectures with tens to hundreds of functional units, multiple register files, and explicit interconnect betw...
ISCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
The register file access time is one of the critical delays in current superscalar processors. Its impact on processor performance is likely to increase in future processor genera...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Processor architectures with tens to hundreds of arithmetic units are emerging to handle media processing applications. These applications, such as image coding, image synthesis, ...
ICS
2001
Tsinghua U.
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Tsinghua U.
A large logical register file is important to allow effective compiler transformations or to provide a windowed space of registers to allow fast function calls. Unfortunately, a l...