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IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Enhancing the effectiveness of utilizing an instruction register file
This paper describes the outcomes of the NSF Grant CNS-0615085: CSR-EHS: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Utilizing an Instruction Register File. We improved promoting instructions ...
David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson
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ISVLSI
2007
IEEE
127views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Asymmetrically Banked Value-Aware Register Files
Designing high-performance low-power register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply-pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziav...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ICCD 2003»
15 years 6 months ago
Reducing Operand Transport Complexity of Superscalar Processors using Distributed Register Files
A critical problem in wide-issue superscalar processors is the limit on cycle time imposed by the central register file and operand bypass network. In this paper, a distributed re...
Santithorn Bunchua, D. Scott Wills, Linda M. Wills
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ICCD
2006
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Reduce Register Files Leakage Through Discharging Cells
— We propose a low-leakage register file cell design based on the observation that the physical registers in a superscalar processor have very short life cycles. When a register...
Lingling Jin, Wei Wu, Jun Yang 0002, Chuanjun Zhan...
ISLPED
2007
ACM
75views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Minimizing power dissipation during write operation to register files
This paper presents a power reduction mechanism for the write operation in register files (RegFiles), which adds a conditional charge-sharing structure to the pair of complementar...
Kimish Patel, Wonbok Lee, Massoud Pedram