Value prediction is a technique that breaks true data dependences by predicting the outcome of an instruction, and executes speculatively its data-dependent instructions based on ...
As the family of Alpha microprocessors continues to scale into more advanced technologies with very high frequency edge rates and multiple layers of interconnect, the issue of cha...
Verification is one of the most critical and time-consuming tasks in today's design processes. This paper demonstrates the verification process of a 8.8 million gate design u...
Johann Notbauer, Thomas W. Albrecht, Georg Niedris...
The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture for the Internet implements a scalable mechanism for qualityof-service (QoS) provisioning. Bandwidth brokers represent the inst...
In this paper we present a performance study of memory reference behavior in network protocol processing, using an Internet-based protocol stack implemented in the x-kernel runnin...
Erich M. Nahum, David J. Yates, James F. Kurose, D...