The Tortola Project - Detailed Reading

This reading list is incredibly out of date. Sorry about that.

Background Materials

Architecture

• Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors (ISCA 1997)
• Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors (Subbarao's Ph.D. Thesis)
• An Enhanced Access and Cycle Time Model for On-Chip Caches (WRL Tech Report 1993)
• Performance Analysis Using Pipeline Visualization

HW Techniques for Power/Energy

• Transistor Sizing for Low Power CMOS Circuits
• Cache Designs for Energy Efficiency
• Low-Power Logic Styles : CMOS vs CPL
• The Energy Complexity of Register Files
• Dynamically Exploiting Narrow Width Operands to Improve Processor Power and Performance
• The Filter Cache: An Energy Efficient Memory Structure
• Reconfigurable Issue Logic for Microprocessor Power/Performance Throttling
• Reconfiguring Issue Logic for Microprocessor Power/Performance Throttling
• Pipeline Gating: Speculation Control For Energy Reduction
• Analytical Energy Dissipation Models For Low Power Caches
• Power and Performance Tradeoffs using Various Caching Strategies

SW Techniques for Power/Energy

• Software Power Optimization via Post-Link-Time Binary Rewriting
• Power-Aware Compilation with Architectural Support and Instruction Scheduling
• Algorithms and Analysis of Scheduling for Low-Power High-Performance DSP on VLIW Processors
• Instruction Scheduling for Low Power
• Low Power Data Processing by Elimination of Redundant Computations
• Low-Power, Low-Complexity Instruction Issue Using Compiler Assistance
• A Study in Malloc: A Case of Excessive Minor Faults
• Cool-Fetch: A Compiler-Enabled IPC Estimation Based Framework for Energy Reduction

Di/Dt

• Eliminating Voltage Emergencies via Microarchitectural Voltage Control Feedback and Dynamic Optimization
• Control Techniques to Eliminate Voltage Emergencies in High Performance Processors
• Power Analysis and Instruction Scheduling for Reduced di/dt in the Execution Core of High-Performance Microprocessors
• Microarchitectural Simulation and Control of di/dt-induced Power Supply Voltage Variation
• Wavelet Analysis for Microprocessor Design: Experiences with Wavelet-Based dI/dt Characterization