The main aim of this short paper is to investigate multiple-instruction-issue in a high-performance superscalar architecture, illustrating the optimum values for some processing parameters, as well as some advanced techniques for improving processor performance, such as dependence collapsing and instruction bypassing. Our analysis is based on a trace driven simulation method. The simulation res...

Power consumption in the register file (RF) forms a considerable fraction of the total power consumption in a chip. With increasing instruction window sizes and issue widths, RF power consumption will suffer a significantly large growth. Using the fact that many of the register values are small and require only a small number of bits for representation, we propose a novel asymmetrically ported ...

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