Using reconfigurable functional units in conventional microprocessors.

Rodrigues, Arun F.

关键词: DESIGN;    EVALUATION;    FUNCTIONALS;    MICROPROCESSORS;    PERFORMANCE;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1011665
RP-ID  :  SAND2010-8063
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1011665
Others  :  TRN: US201109%%726

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Scientific applications use highly specialized data structures that require complex, latency sensitive graphs of integer instructions for memory address calculations. Working with the Univeristy of Wisconsin, we have demonstrated significant differences between the Sandia's applications and the industry standard SPEC-FP (standard performance evaluation corporation-floating point) suite. Specifically, integer dataflow performance is critical to overall system performance. To improve this performance, we have developed a configurable functional unit design that is capable of accelerating integer dataflow.