As embedded systems continue to face increasingly higher performance requirements, deeply pipelined processor architectures are being employed to meet desired system performance. ...
Modern superscalar processors implement precise interrupts by using the Reorder Buffer (ROB). In some microarchitectures , such as the Intel P6, the ROB also serves as a repositor...
Gurhan Kucuk, Dmitry Ponomarev, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
The problem of interconnect architecture arises when an array of processors needs to be integrated on one chip. With the deep sub-micron technology, devices become cheap while wir...
Feng Zhou, Esther Y. Cheng, Bo Yao, Chung-Kuan Che...
- Electronic systems for safety-critical automotive applications must operate for many years in harsh environments. Reliability issues are worsening with device scaling down, while...
—Variations of process parameters have an important impact on reliability and yield in deep sub micron IC technologies. One methodology to estimate the influence of these effects...