Instruction aggregation—the grouping of multiple operations into a single processing unit—is a technique that has recently been used to amplify the bandwidth and capacity of c...
Designing and optimizing high performance microprocessors is an increasingly difficult task due to the size and complexity of the processor design space, high cost of detailed si...
P. J. Joseph, Kapil Vaswani, Matthew J. Thazhuthav...
Dynamic software bug detection tools are commonly used because they leverage run-time information. However, they suffer from a fundamental limitation, the Path Coverage Problem: t...
Power delivery is a growing reliability concern in microprocessors as the industry moves toward feature-rich, powerhungrier designs. To battle the ever-aggravating power consumpti...
Fayez Mohamood, Michael B. Healy, Sung Kyu Lim, Hs...
One of the major issues faced by the semiconductor industry today is that of reducing chip yields. As the process technologies have scaled to smaller feature sizes, chip yields ha...