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
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