Network-on-chip (NoC) has become a critical shared resource in the emerging Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) era. Most prior NoC designs have used the same type of router across the enti...
Asit K. Mishra, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Chita R. ...
As symmetric multiprocessors become commonplace, the interconnection networks and the communication system software in clusters of multiprocessors become critical to achieving high...
Ying Qian, Ahmad Afsahi, Nathan R. Fredrickson, Re...
— Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) systems have become the reference architecture for designing micro-processors, thanks to the improvements in semiconductor nanotechnology that have co...
Pierfrancesco Foglia, Cosimo Antonio Prete, Marco ...
This paper presents the study of running several core multimedia applications on a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) architecture and derives design principles for multimedia soft...
Yen-Kuang Chen, Rainer Lienhart, Eric Debes, Matth...
With the trend towards increasing number of processor cores in future chip architectures, scalable directory-based protocols for maintaining cache coherence will be needed. Howeve...