The superblock is a scheduling region which exposes instruction level parallelism beyond the basic block through speculative execution of instructions. In general, scheduling supe...
Although processor design verification consumes ever-increasing resources, many design defects still slip into production silicon. In a few cases, such bugs have caused expensive...
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Low-overhead checkpointing and rollback is a popular technique for fault recovery. While different approaches are possible, hardware-supported checkpointing and rollback at the ca...
Although silicon optical technology is still in its formative stages, and the more near-term application is chip-to-chip communication, rapid advances have been made in the develo...
Nevin Kirman, Meyrem Kirman, Rajeev K. Dokania, Jo...
VLIW and EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures rely on compilers to form high-quality hyperblocks for good performance. These compilers typically perform hyperblock f...
Bertrand A. Maher, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Kathr...