The speculative multithreading paradigm (speculative thread-level parallelism) is based on the concurrent execution of control-speculative threads. The efficiency of microarchitectures that adopt this paradigm strongly ...

Layout regularity is introduced progressively by integrated circuit manufacturers to reduce the increasing systematic process variations in the deep sub-micron era. In this paper we focus on a scenario where layout regularity ...

Process variations are a major bottleneck for digital CMOS integrated circuits manufacturability and yield. That is why regular techniques with different degrees of regularity are emerging as possible solutions. Our ...

The number of physical registers is one of the critical issues of current superscalar out-of-order processors. Conventional architectures allocate, in the decoding stage, a new storage location (e.g. a physical register) ...

During real-time graphics rendering, objects are processed by the GPU in the order they are submitted by the CPU, and occluded surfaces are often processed even though they will end up not being part of the final image, ...

Evaluation techniques in microprocessor design are mostly based on simulating selected application samples using a cycle-accurate simulator. In order to achieve accurate results, microarchitectural structures are warmed-up ...

Continuous Vision (CV) systems are essential for emerging applications like Autonomous Driving (AD) and Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR). A standard CV System-on-a-Chip (SoC) pipeline includes a frontend for image capture ...