As process technology continues to shrink, interconnect current densities continue to increase, making it ever more difficult to meet chip reliability targets. For microprocessors...
This paper explores the multi-dimensional design space for chip multiprocessors, exploring the inter-related variables of core count, pipeline depth, superscalar width, L2 cache s...
Yingmin Li, Benjamin C. Lee, David Brooks, Zhigang...
— The flip-chip package gives the highest chip density of any packaging method to support the pad-limited Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designs. In this paper,...
—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 ...
Shuai Wang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Sung Woo ...
— Error correcting coding is the dominant technique to achieve acceptable soft-error rates in memory arrays. In many modern circuits, the number of memory elements in the random ...
Michael E. Imhof, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, Christi...