One of the major issues faced by the semiconductor industry today is that of reducing chip yields. As the process technologies have scaled to smaller feature sizes, chip yields ha...
As the industry moves toward larger-scale chip multiprocessors, the need to parallelize applications grows. High inter-thread communication delays, exacerbated by over-stressed hi...
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Adam Stoler, Guilhe...
To protect processor logic from soft errors, multicore redundant architectures execute two copies of a program on separate cores of a chip multiprocessor (CMP). Maintaining identi...
Jared C. Smolens, Brian T. Gold, Babak Falsafi, Ja...
The advent of deep sub-micron technology has recently highlighted the criticality of the on-chip interconnects. As diminishing feature sizes have led to increases in global wiring...
Chrysostomos Nicopoulos, Dongkook Park, Jongman Ki...
Shrinking devices to the nanoscale, increasing integration densities, and reducing of voltage levels down to the thermal limit, all conspire to produce faulty systems. Frequent oc...
Kundan Nepal, R. Iris Bahar, Joseph L. Mundy, Will...