Increasing non-recurring engineering (NRE) and mask costs are making it harder to turn to hardwired Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) solutions for high performance a...
Estimating the maximum power and thermal characteristics of a processor is essential for designing its power delivery system, packaging, cooling, and power/thermal management sche...
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy Kurian John, ...
In this paper we explore a new clustering approach for reducing the complexity of wide issue in-order processors based on EPIC architectures. Complexity effectiveness is achieved ...
Satish Narayanasamy, Hong Wang 0003, Perry H. Wang...
With the scaling of technology, transient errors caused by external particle strikes have become a critical challenge for microprocessor design. As embedded processors are widely ...
The register file access time is one of the critical delays in current superscalar processors. Its impact on processor performance is likely to increase in future processor genera...