Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) is a way of improving the performance of a processor by executing operations simultaneously. Modern processors generally have an abundance of execution ...

You only need to validate one core of a CMP design. So if that core is simpler, validation is easier. And you have to worry about the rest of the logic no matter what your core design is. You dont get ...

Rising development costs motivate companies to design fewer systems-on-chip, but to make each one they do design more flexible and programmable. Doing so makes it possible to reuse designs to take ...

The company has only just started delivering its UltraSparc III processor, but already it has begun touting the split-personality features of its upcoming UltraSparc V chip. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Designers looking to incorporate embedded DSPs in their SoCs have at least three options. They could try a general-purpose fixed DSP even though it may not particularly suit their application. Or, ...

The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...

Neural network-based branch prediction techniques represent a significant advancement in processor architecture, where machine learning models replace traditional, heuristic-based mechanisms to ...