A multiprocessor virtual machine benefits its guest operating system in supporting scalable job throughput and request latency--useful properties in server consolidation where ser...
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
Inherent within complex instruction set architectures such as x86 are inefficiencies that do not exist in a simpler ISAs. Modern x86 implementations decode instructions into one o...
Brian Slechta, David Crowe, Brian Fahs, Michael Fe...
Processor cycle time continues to decrease faster than main memory access times, placing higher demands on cache memory hierarchy performance. To meet these demands, conventional ...
Alvin R. Lebeck, David R. Raymond, Chia-Lin Yang, ...
Transient faults are expected a be a major design consideration in future microprocessors. Recent proposals for transient fault detection in processor cores have revolved around t...