Applying Time Warp to CPU design
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This paper exemplifies the similarities in Time Warp and computer architecture concepts and terminology, and the continued trend for convergence of ideas in these two areas. Time Warp can provide a means to describe the complex mechanisms being used to allow the instruction execution window to be enlarged. Furthermore it can extend the current mechanisms, which do not scale, in a scaleable manner. The issues involved in implementing Time Warp in a CPU design are also examined, and illustrated with reference to the Wisconsin Multiscalar machine and the Waikato WarpEngine. Finally the potential performance gains of such a system are briefly discussed.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997