Post-silicon validation has recently drawn designers' attention due to its increasing impacts on the VLSI design cycle and cost. One key feature of the post-silicon validatio...
This paper introduces Way Stealing, a simple architectural modification to a cache-based processor to increase data bandwidth to and from application-specific Instruction Set Exte...
Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne, Edoardo Ch...
Extensive software-based simulation continues to be the mainstream methodology for functional verification of designs. To optimize the use of limited simulation resources, coverag...
Onur Guzey, Li-C. Wang, Jeremy R. Levitt, Harry Fo...
: Spin-Torque Transfer Magnetic RAM (STT MRAM) is a promising candidate for future universal memory. It combines the desirable attributes of current memory technologies such as SRA...
Jing Li, Charles Augustine, Sayeef S. Salahuddin, ...
The memory hierarchy of a system can consume up to 50% of microprocessor system power. Previous work has shown that tuning a configurable cache to a particular application can red...