Technology scaling trends have forced designers to consider alternatives to deeply pipelining aggressive cores with large amounts of performance accelerating hardware. One alterna...
Anahita Shayesteh, Glenn Reinman, Norman P. Jouppi...
Multimedia and network processing applications make extensive use of subword data. Since registers are capable of holding a full data word, when a subword variable is assigned a r...
— Power analysis attacks are a type of side-channel attacks that exploits the power consumption of computing devices to retrieve secret information. They are very effective in br...
Shuo Wang, Fan Zhang, Jianwei Dai, Lei Wang, Zhiji...
—The ongoing move to chip multiprocessors (CMPs) permits greater sharing of last-level cache by processor cores but this sharing aggravates the cache contention problem, potentia...
Chi Xu, Xi Chen, Robert P. Dick, Zhuoqing Morley M...
Register file (RF) is extremely vulnerable to soft errors, and traditional redundancy based schemes to protect the RF are prohibitive not only because RF is often in the timing c...