Brains perform with remarkable efficiency, are capable of prodigious computation, and are
marvels of communication. We are beginning to understand some of the geometric …

Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-
power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well …

The IBM POWER4 is a new microprocessor organized in a system structure that includes
new technology to form systems. The name POWER4 as used in this context refers not only …

The instruction-level parallelism found in a conventional instruction stream is limited. Studies
have shown the limits of processor utilization even for today's superscalar microprocessors …

This paper examines the area, power, performance, and design issues for the on-chip
interconnects on a chip multiprocessor, attempting to present a comprehensive view of a …

Networks-on-chip (NoC) have emerged to tackle different on-chip communication
challenges and can satisfy different demands in terms of performance, cost and reliability …

The re-emerging interconnect problem is quickly becoming a major bottleneck to the
performance enhancement and cost reduction of modern digital systems. To overcome this …

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As the technology feature size is reduced, the thermal management of high-performance
very large scale integrations (VLSIs) becomes an important design issue. The self-heating …

ReRAM-based Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures have been increasingly explored
to accelerate various Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications because they can achieve …