Microprocessor power consumption and dependability are both crucial challenges that
designers have to cope with due to shrinking feature sizes and increasing transistor counts …

Energy efficiency is a known major concern for computing system designers. Significant
effort is devoted to power optimization of modern systems, especially in large-scale …

Modern large-scale computing systems (data centers, supercomputers, cloud and edge
setups and high-end cyber-physical systems) employ heterogeneous architectures that …

The aggressive scaling of technology may have helped to meet the growing demand for
higher memory capacity and density, but has also made DRAM cells more prone to errors …

Modern large-scale computing systems (data centers, supercomputers, cloud and edge
setups and high-end cyber-physical systems) employ heterogeneous architectures that …

Failures become inevitable in DRAM devices, which is a major obstacle for scaling down the
density of cells in future DRAM technologies. These failures can be detected by specific …

Branch prediction units are key performance components in modern microprocessors as
they are widely used to address control hazards and minimize misprediction stalls. The …

Advances in reliability research have presented novel techniques for early identification of
upcoming failures (both long-term and short-term) as well as sophisticated isolation and …

CPU operation at sub-nominal voltage levels has been researched to reduce the power and
energy consumption of computer systems. While it is possible to determine a safe …

Nanometer circuits are becoming increasingly prone to timing errors due to worsening
parametric variations and operation close to voltage and frequency limits. Such errors …