Memory disambiguation hardware: a review

One of the main challenges of modern processor designs is the implementation of scalable and efficient mechanisms to detect memory access order violations as a result of out-of-order execution. Conventional structures performing this task are complex, inefficient and power-hungry. This fact has gen...

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Autores principales: Castro, Fernando, Chaver, Daniel, Piñuel, Luis, Prieto, Manuel, Tirado Fernández, Francisco
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/9636
http://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/JCST-Oct08-1.pdf
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Sumario:One of the main challenges of modern processor designs is the implementation of scalable and efficient mechanisms to detect memory access order violations as a result of out-of-order execution. Conventional structures performing this task are complex, inefficient and power-hungry. This fact has generated a large body of work on optimizing address-based memory disambiguation logic, namely the load-store queue. In this paper we review the most significant proposals in this research field, focusing on our own contributions.