Register file (RF) is extremely vulnerable to soft errors, and traditional redundancy based schemes to protect the RF are prohibitive not only because RF is often in the timing c...
—The ongoing move to chip multiprocessors (CMPs) permits greater sharing of last-level cache by processor cores but this sharing aggravates the cache contention problem, potentia...
Chi Xu, Xi Chen, Robert P. Dick, Zhuoqing Morley M...
In recent years, microprocessor manufacturers have shifted their focus from single-core to multi-core processors. To avoid burdening programmers with the responsibility of paralle...
Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, Easwaran Raman, Mat...
The number of functional errors escaping design verification and being released into final silicon is growing, due to the increasing complexity and shrinking production schedules ...
In recent years, power consumption has become a critical concern for many VLSI systems. Whereas several case studies demonstrate that technology-, layout-, and gate-level technique...
Dan Crisu, Sorin Cotofana, Stamatis Vassiliadis, P...