An ultra-low quiescent current tri-mode DC-DC buck converter is presented in this paper,
which is able to handle a 100,000 X load range. In pulse width modulation (PWM) and pulse …

The Memory stress (Mess) framework provides a unified view of the memory system
benchmarking, simulation and application profiling. The Mess benchmark provides a holistic …

Generic multi-threaded sampled simulation has been a long-standing, challenging problem
with the potential to help change how researchers study modern, complex computing …

Optimizing the parameter settings in a large design space for the processor with limited
simulation resources is a challenging task. The current black-box optimization algorithms for …

The complexity and diversity of big data and AI workloads make understanding them difficult
and challenging. This paper proposes a new approachto modelling and characterizing big …

The marketplace for general-purpose microprocessors offers hundreds of functionally similar
models, differing by traits like frequency, core count, cache size, memory bandwidth, and …

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an important solution to balance
performance and energy consumption, and hardware vendors provide management …

Simulators help computer architects optimize system designs. The limited performance of
simulators even of moderate size and detail makes the approach infeasible for design-space …

Energy efficiency has emerged as a key concern for modern processor design, especially
when it comes to embedded and mobile devices. It is vital to accurately quantify the power …

This paper proposes PerfVec, a novel deep learning-based performance modeling
framework that learns high-dimensional, independent/orthogonal program and …