Caches are designed to provide the best tradeoff between access speed and capacity for a set of target applications. Unfortunately, different applications, and even different phas...
The industry is rapidly moving towards the adoption of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs) of Simultaneous MultiThreaded (SMT) cores for general purpose systems. The most prominent use o...
Ali El-Moursy, R. Garg, David H. Albonesi, Sandhya...
The speedup over a microprocessor that can be achieved by implementing some programs on an FPGA has been extensively reported. This paper presents an analysis, both quantitative a...
Zhi Guo, Walid A. Najjar, Frank Vahid, Kees A. Vis...
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) increases processor throughput by multiplexing resources among several threads. Despite the commercial availability of SMT processors, several as...
The performance requirements for contemporary microprocessors are increasing as rapidly as their number of applications grows. By accelerating the clock, performance can be gained...