2004 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'04) Exploiting Quiescent States in Register Lifetime San Jose, CA October 11-October 13 ISBN: 0-7695-2231-9
Large register file with multiple ports, but with a minimal accesst ime, is a critical component in a superscalar processor. Analysis of the lifetime of a logical to physical register mapping reveals that there are long latencies between the times a physical register is allocated, consumed, and released. In this paper, we propose a TriBank register file, a novel register file organization that expoits such long latencies, resulting in a larger register bandwidth and a smaller register access time. Implementation of the TriBank register file organization, as compared to a conventional monolithic register file in an 8-wide out-of-order issue superscalar processor reduced the register access time up to 34%, even while enhancing the throughput in instructions per cycle (IPC) by 3% and 14%, for SpecInt2000 and SpecFP2000, respectively.
Citation:
Rama Sangireddy, Arun K. Somani, "Exploiting Quiescent States in Register Lifetime," iccd, pp.368-374, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||