Large instruction window processors achieve high performance by exposing large amounts of instruction level parallelism. However, accessing large hardware structures typically req...
Haitham Akkary, Ravi Rajwar, Srikanth T. Srinivasa...
Per-core local (scratchpad) memories allow direct inter-core communication, with latency and energy advantages over coherent cache-based communication, especially as CMP architect...
Stamatis G. Kavadias, Manolis Katevenis, Michail Z...
This paper presents a technique for representing and displaying high dynamic-range texture maps (HDRTMs) using current graphics hardware. Dynamic range in real-world environments o...
Jonathan Cohen, Chris Tchou, Tim Hawkins, Paul E. ...
Hybrid branch predictors combine the predictions of multiple single-level or two-level branch predictors. The prediction-combining hardware -- the "meta-predictor" -may ...
Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Benjamin G. Zorn
The inherent instruction-level parallelism (ILP) of current applications (specially those based on floating point computations) has driven hardware designers and compilers writers...