• DocumentCode
    378833
  • Title

    Dynamic microarchitecture adaptation via co-designed virtual machines

  • Author

    Smith, J.E. ; Dhodapkar, A.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    7-7 Feb. 2002
  • Firstpage
    198
  • Abstract
    Co-designed virtual machines provide hardware designers with a hidden layer of software that can be used to manage configurable hardware units. A reconfiguration algorithm based on a mechanism for identifying recurring program phases provides power savings in caches and predictors up to 60%, without significantly affecting performance.
  • Keywords
    hardware-software codesign; virtual machines; codesigned virtual machines; configurable hardware units; dynamic microarchitecture adaptation; reconfiguration algorithm; Change detection algorithms; Circuits; DH-HEMTs; Hardware; History; Microarchitecture; Optimization methods; Pipelines; Proposals; Virtual machining;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2002. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2002 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7335-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2002.993004
  • Filename
    993004