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2006
IEEE
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Constructing portable compiled instruction-set simulators: an ADL-driven approach
Instruction set simulators are common tools used for the development of new architectures and embedded software among countless other functions. This paper presents a framework th...
Joseph D'Errico, Wei Qin
DSD
2006
IEEE
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A Flexible, Syntax Independent Representation (SIR) for System Level Design Models
System Level Design (SLD) is widely seen as a solution for bridging the gap between chip complexity and design productivity of Systems on Chip (SoC). SLD relieves the designer fro...
Ines Viskic, Rainer Dömer
DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
In-Register Duplication: Exploiting Narrow-Width Value for Improving Register File Reliability
Protecting the register value and its data buses is crucial to reliable computing in high-performance microprocessors due to the increasing susceptibility of CMOS circuitry to sof...
Jie Hu, Shuai Wang, Sotirios G. Ziavras
ICPP
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Address-Value Decoupling for Early Register Deallocation
We propose a series of aggressive register deallocation mechanisms to reduce the register file pressure and increase the parallelism exploited by superscalar microprocessors. Our ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Whole-program optimization of global variable layout
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...