— Semi-formal verification based on symbolic simulation offers a good compromise between formal model checking and numerical simulation. The generation of functional test vector...
Zhihong Zeng, Maciej J. Ciesielski, Bruno Rouzeyre
The current methodology used in mass-market processor design is to create a single base microarchitecture (e.g., Intel's "Core"or AMD's"K8") that is ...
Instruction set customization accelerates the performance of applications by compressing the length of critical dependence paths and reducing the demands on processor resources. W...
Sami Yehia, Nathan Clark, Scott A. Mahlke, Kriszti...
Interactive algorithm visualizations (AVs) are powerful tools for teaching and learning concepts that are difficult to describe with static media alone. However, while countless A...
Saleema Amershi, Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conat...
Modern processors use branch target buffers (BTBs) to predict the target address of branches such that they can fetch ahead in the instruction stream increasing concurrency and pe...