Clustered microarchitectures are an attractive alternative to large monolithic superscalar
designs due to their potential for higher clock rates in the face of increasingly wire-delay …

This survey paper identifies some trends in the application, implementation technology, and
processor architecture areas. A taxonomy which captures the influence of these trends on …

Software system documentation is almost always expressed informally, in natural language
and free text. Examples include requirement specifications, design documents, manual …

In the modern era of wire-dominated architectures, specific effort must be made to reduce
needless communication within out-of-order pipelines while still maintaining binary …

Due to increasing power densities, both on-chip average and peak temperatures are fast
becoming a serious bottleneck in processor design. This is due to the cost of removing the …

As frequencies and feature size scale faster than operating voltages, power density is
increasing in each processor generation. Power density and the cost of removing the heat it …

With the rise of multicore computing, the design of on-chip networks (or networks on chip)
has become an increasingly important component of computer architecture. The cell …

Future high-performance billion-transistor processors are likely to employ partitioned
architectures to achieve high clock speeds, high parallelism, low design complexity, and low …

As frequencies and feature size scale faster than operating voltages, power density is
increasing in every processor generation. Along with that, leakage (highly dependent on …

Chip multi-processors (CMPs) already have widespread commercial availability, and
technology roadmaps project enough on-chip transistors to replicate tens or hundreds of …