The significant speed-gap between processor and memory and the limited chip memory bandwidth make last-level cache performance crucial for future chip multiprocessors. To use the...
— As transistor sizes continue to shrink and the number of transistors per chip keeps increasing, chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are becoming a promising alternative to remain on th...
Taylan Yemliha, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Mahmut T. Kan...
Integrating more processor cores on-die has become the unanimous trend in the microprocessor industry. Most of the current research thrusts using chip multiprocessors (CMPs) as th...
Chinnakrishnan S. Ballapuram, Ahmad Sharif, Hsien-...
Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems remains challenging. While formal methods have been used to validate protocols, simulation is still the dominant method used to ...
Ofer Shacham, Megan Wachs, Alex Solomatnikov, Amin...
The current paradigm of using Cu interconnects for on-chip global communication is rapidly becoming a serious performance bottleneck in ultra-deep submicron (UDSM) technologies. C...