System-on-chip (SoC) designs use bus protocols for high performance data transfer among the Intellectual Property (IP) cores. These protocols incorporate advanced features such as...
— Recent efforts to address microprocessor power dissipation through aggressive supply voltage scaling and power management require that designers be increasingly cognizant of po...
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Jarod L. Oatley, Russ Joseph, ...
The speed gap between processor and memory continues to limit performance. To address this problem, we explore the potential of eliminating Zero Loads—loads accessing memory loc...
Md. Mafijul Islam, Sally A. McKee, Per Stenstr&oum...
Since 2005, processor designers have increased core counts to exploit Moore’s Law scaling, rather than focusing on single-core performance. The failure of Dennard scaling, to wh...
— The Dark Silicon Age kicked off with the transition to multicore and will be characterized by a wild chase for seemingly ever-more insane architectural designs. At the heart o...
Nathan Goulding-Hotta, Jack Sampson, Qiaoshi Zheng...