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2007
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
Balancing productivity and performance on the cell broadband engine
— The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a heterogeneous multicore processor, combining a general-purpose POWER architecture core with eight independent single-instructionmultiple-dat...
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vett...
HPCA
2001
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Speculative Data-Driven Multithreading
Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...
Amir Roth, Gurindar S. Sohi
ISCA
2000
IEEE
156views Hardware» more  ISCA 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
CHIMAERA: a high-performance architecture with a tightly-coupled reconfigurable functional unit
Reconfigurable hardware has the potential for significant performance improvements by providing support for application−specific operations. We report our experience with Chimae...
Zhi Alex Ye, Andreas Moshovos, Scott Hauck, Prithv...
DAC
1996
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Techniques for Verifying Superscalar Microprocessors
Burch and Dill [3] described an automatic method for verifying a pipelined processor against its instruction setarchitecture(ISA). We describethree techniquesfor improving this me...
Jerry R. Burch
FUIN
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Maurer Computers with Single-Thread Control
We present the development of a theory of stored threads and their execution. The work builds upon Maurer’s theory of computer instructions and the thread algebra of Bergstra et ...
Jan A. Bergstra, C. A. Middelburg