The reliability of future processors is threatened by decreasing transistor robustness. Current architectures focus on delivering high performance at low cost; lifetime device rel...
Andrea Pellegrini, Joseph L. Greathouse, Valeria B...
Post-silicon processor debugging is frequently carried out in a loop consisting of several iterations of the following two key steps: (i) processor execution for some duration, fo...
Anant Vishnoi, Preeti Ranjan Panda, M. Balakrishna...
Scenario-based design exploits the time-varying execution behavior of applications by dynamically adapting the system on which they run. This is a particularly interesting design ...
Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
Hongliang Gao, Yi Ma, Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zho...
The use of large instruction windows coupled with aggressive out-oforder and prefetching capabilities has provided significant improvements in processor performance. In this paper...