Sciweavers

2784 search results - page 301 / 557
» Instruction Level Parallelism
Sort
View
113
Voted
HPCA
2006
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic counter updates for predictor hysteresis and stratification
Hardware counters are a fundamental building block of modern high-performance processors. This paper explores two applications of probabilistic counter updates, in which the outpu...
Nicholas Riley, Craig B. Zilles
HPCA
2005
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Distributing the Frontend for Temperature Reduction
Due to increasing power densities, both on-chip average and peak temperatures are fast becoming a serious bottleneck in processor design. This is due to the cost of removing the h...
Antonio González, Grigorios Magklis, Jos&ea...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Software Directed Issue Queue Power Reduction
The issue logic of a superscalar processor dissipates a large amount of static and dynamic power. Furthermore, its power density makes it a hot-spot requiring expensive cooling sy...
Antonio González, Jaume Abella, Michael F. ...
138
Voted
HPCA
2005
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
On the Limits of Leakage Power Reduction in Caches
If current technology scaling trends hold, leakage power dissipation will soon become the dominant source of power consumption in high performance processors. Caches, due to the f...
Yan Meng, Timothy Sherwood, Ryan Kastner
113
Voted
HPCA
2003
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Reconsidering Complex Branch Predictors
To sustain instruction throughput rates in more aggressively clocked microarchitectures, microarchitects have incorporated larger and more complex branch predictors into their des...
Daniel A. Jiménez