We show that for 8 real and varied C and C++ programs, several conventional dynamic storage allocators provide nearzero fragmentation, once we account for overheads due to impleme...
As the sizes of general and special purpose processors increase rapidly, generating high quality manufacturing tests for them is becoming a serious problem in industry. This paper...
High performance architectures depend heavily on efficient multi-level memory hierarchies to minimize the cost of accessing data. This dependence will increase with the expected i...
A stress procedure for reliability screening, SHOrt Voltage Elevation (SHOVE) test, is analyzed here. During SHOVE, test vectors are run at higher-than-normal supply voltage for a...
In this paper, we note and analyze a key trade-off: as the complexity of caches increases (higher set-associativity, larger block size, and larger overall size), the power consume...
Patrick Hicks, Matthew Walnock, Robert Michael Owe...