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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2002.993004
