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 …

We recognize that the execution of many dynamic instructions have no consequence on the
overall execution of the program. For example, the execution of a correctly predicted …

Tsunami is a series of water waves caused by submarine earthquakes leading to the
displacement of a large volume of water. The earliest known tsunami was recorded in 1450 …

Manufactured VLSI circuits using a new technology typically suffer from systematic defects
that are process-dependent and at sub-nanometer feature sizes such defects may be even …

As feature sizes are becoming smaller, wire delays are becoming very critical. Clustering is
a popular decentralization approach to reduce the impact of shrinking technologies on clock …

In the sub-micron technology era, wire delays are becoming much more important than gate
delays, making it particularly attractive to go for clustered designs. A common form of …

Abstract 3D die-stacked chips are emerging as intriguing prospects for the future because of
their ability to reduce on-chip wire delays and power consumption. However, they will likely …

In a processor having multiple clusters which operate in par allel, the number of clusters in
use can be varied dynamically. At the start of each program phase, the configuration option …

The ever increasing demand for high clock speeds and the desire to exploit abundant
transistor budgets have resulted in alarming increases in processor power dissipation …

The direction of conditional branches is predicted correctly in modern processors with great
accuracy. We find several instructions in the dynamic instruction stream that contribute only …