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ISLPED
2003
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
A mixed-clock issue queue design for globally asynchronous, locally synchronous processor cores
Ever shrinking device sizes and innovative micro-architectural and circuit design techniques have made it possible to have multi-million transistor systems running at multi-gigahe...
Venkata Syam P. Rapaka, Diana Marculescu
ICS
1998
Tsinghua U.
15 years 1 months ago
Load Execution Latency Reduction
In order to achieve high performance, contemporary microprocessors must effectively process the four major instruction types: ALU, branch, load, and store instructions. This paper...
Bryan Black, Brian Mueller, Stephanie Postal, Ryan...
DAC
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
StressTest: an automatic approach to test generation via activity monitors
The challenge of verifying a modern microprocessor design is an overwhelming one: Increasingly complex micro-architectures combined with heavy time-to-market pressure have forced ...
Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M. Austin
ICCD
2004
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Increasing Processor Performance Through Early Register Release
Modern superscalar microprocessors need sizable register files to support large number of in-flight instructions for exploiting ILP. An alternative to building large register file...
Oguz Ergin, Deniz Balkan, Dmitry V. Ponomarev, Kan...
ISPASS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Measuring Program Similarity: Experiments with SPEC CPU Benchmark Suites
Performance evaluation using only a subset of programs from a benchmark suite is commonplace in computer architecture research. This is especially true during early design space e...
Aashish Phansalkar, Ajay Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, L...