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2010
IEEE
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TIMBER: Time borrowing and error relaying for online timing error resilience
Increasing dynamic variability with technology scaling has made it essential to incorporate large design-time timing margins to ensure yield and reliable operation. Online techniq...
Mihir R. Choudhury, Vikas Chandra, Kartik Mohanram...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
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The Optimum Pipeline Depth for a Microprocessor
The impact of pipeline length on the performance of a microprocessor is explored both theoretically and by simulation. An analytical theory is presented that shows two opposing ar...
Allan Hartstein, Thomas R. Puzak
ISSS
2002
IEEE
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Design Experience of a Chip Multiprocessor Merlot and Expectation to Functional Verification
We have fabricated a Chip Multiprocessor prototype code-named Merlot to proof our novel speculative multithreading architecture. On Merlot, multiple threads provide wider issue wi...
Satoshi Matsushita
WORDS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Writing Temporally Predictable Code
The Worst-Case Execution-Time Analysis (WCET Analysis) of program code that is to be executed on modern processors is a highly complex task. First, it involves path analysis, to i...
Peter P. Puschner, Alan Burns
HPCA
2000
IEEE
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Improving the Throughput of Synchronization by Insertion of Delays
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
Ravi Rajwar, Alain Kägi, James R. Goodman