New Trends in Microprocessor Architecture for Parallel Computing

This paper believes that “broken layers” and“application-driven” will be new trends of microprocessor architecture. After discussion of parallel technologies at several levels, and schemes to manage data locality and communication, a practical architecture-customizing flow has been delineated in details, from which designer will understand how to accomplish high-performance microprocessor hardware based-on existing parallelism and architecture technologies. At last, some experience of our research on application-specific microprocessor has been stated.