Exponential growth in the number of on-chip transistors, coupled with reductions in voltage
levels, makes each generation of microprocessors increasingly vulnerable to transient faults …

Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) increases processor throughput by multiplexing
resources among several threads. Despite the commercial availability of SMT processors …

Multiported register files are a critical component of high-performance superscalar
microprocessors. Conventional multiported structures can consume significant power and …

The high access latency of DRAM continues to be a performance challenge for
contemporary microprocessor systems. Prefetching is a well-established technique to …

Leakage power is dominated by critical paths, and hence dynamic deactivation of fast
transistors can yield large savings. We introduce metrics for comparing fine-grain dynamic …

Previous proposals for soft-error tolerance have called for redundantly executing a program
as two concurrent threads on a superscalar microarchitecture. In a balanced superscalar …

Protecting the register value and its data buses is crucial to reliable computing in high-
performance microprocessors due to the increasing susceptibility of CMOS circuitry to soft …

This book describes the application of c-axis aligned crystalline In-Ga-Zn oxide (CAAC-
IGZO) technology in large-scale integration (LSI) circuits. The applications include Non …

Drive-by download attacks attempt to compromise a victim's computer through browser
vulnerabilities. Often they are launched from Malware Distribution Networks (MDNs) …

A register cache has been proposed to solve the problems of the huge register files of recent
super scalar processors. The register cache reduces the effective access latency of the …