• Block disabling characterization and improvements in CMPs operating at ultra-low voltages 

      Ferrerón, Alexandra; Suárez Gracia, Darío; Alastruey, Jesús; Monreal Arnal, Teresa; Viñals Yufera, Víctor (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Power density has become the limiting factor in technology scaling as power budget restricts the amount of hardware that can be active at the same time. Reducing supply voltage to ultra-low voltage ranges close to the ...
    • Delaying physical register allocation trought virtual-physical registers 

      Monreal Arnal, Teresa; González Colás, Antonio María; Valero Cortés, Mateo; González González, José; Viñals Yufera, Víctor (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1999)
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      Register file access time represents one of the critical delays of current microprocessors, and it is expected to become more critical as future processors increase the instruction window size and the issue width. This ...
    • Filtering directory lookups in CMPs 

      Bosque, Ana; Viñals Yufera, Víctor; Ibáñez, Pablo; Llaberia Griñó, José M. (2010)
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      Coherence protocols consume an important fraction of power to determine which coherence action should take place. In this paper we focus on CMPs with a shared cache and a directory-based coherence protocol implemented as ...
    • Hardware schemes for early register release 

      Monreal Arnal, Teresa; Viñals Yufera, Víctor; González Colás, Antonio María; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2002)
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      Register files are becoming one of the critical components of current out-of-order processors in terms of delay and power consumption, since their potential to exploit instruction-level parallelism is quite related to the ...
    • Late allocation and early release of physical registers 

      Monreal Arnal, Teresa; Viñals Yufera, Víctor; González González, José; González Colás, Antonio María; Valero Cortés, Mateo (2004-10)
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      The register file is one of the critical components of current processors in terms of access time and power consumption. Among other things, the potential to exploit instruction-level parallelism is closely related to the ...
    • Light NUCA: a proposal for bridging the inter-cache latency gap 

      Suárez, Dario; Monreal Arnal, Teresa; Vallejo, Fernando; Beivide Palacio, Julio Ramón; Viñals Yufera, Víctor (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)
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      To deal with the “memory wall” problem, microprocessors include large secondary on-chip caches. But as these caches enlarge, they originate a new latency gap between them and fast L1 caches (inter-cache latency gap). ...
    • Microarchitectural support for speculative register renaming 

      Alastruey, Jesús; Monreal Arnal, Teresa; Viñals Yufera, Víctor; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2007)
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      This paper proposes and evaluates a new microarchitecture for out-of-order processors that supports speculative renaming. We call speculative renaming to the speculative omission of physical register allocation along with ...
    • Selection of the register file size and the resource policy on SMT processors 

      Alastruey, Jesús; Monreal Arnal, Teresa; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier; Viñals Yufera, Víctor; Valero Cortés, Mateo (IEEE Computer Society, 2008)
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      The performance impact of the Physical Register File (PRF) size on Simultaneous Multithreading processors has not been extensively studied in spite of being a critical shared resource. In this paper we analyze the effect ...