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DSN
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 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
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Branch predictor guided instruction decoding
Fast instruction decoding is a challenge for the design of CISC microprocessors. A well-known solution to overcome this problem is using a trace cache. It stores and fetches alrea...
Oliverio J. Santana, Ayose Falcón, Alex Ram...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Comparing simulation techniques for microarchitecture-aware floorplanning
— Due to the long simulation times of the reference input sets, microarchitects resort to alternative techniques to speed up cycle-accurate simulations. However, the reduction in...
Vidyasagar Nookala, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja, Sac...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Mitigating the Impact of Process Variations on Processor Register Files and Execution Units
Design variability due to die-to-die and within-die process variations has the potential to significantly reduce the maximum operating frequency and the effective yield of high-p...
Xiaoyao Liang, David Brooks
SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Improving the compensated Horner scheme with a fused multiply and add
Several different techniques and softwares intend to improve the accuracy of results computed in a fixed finite precision. Here we focus on a method to improve the accuracy of ...
Stef Graillat, Philippe Langlois, Nicolas Louvet