Computer Architecture Selected Papers

Reference Reading List

Processor

• Digital Semiconductor Alpha 21164PC Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual (pdf)
• Alpha 21264PC/EV67 Microprocessor Hardware Reference Manual (pdf)
• POWER4 System Microarchitecture (pdf)
• EV8: The PostEV8: The Post--Ultimate AlphaUltimateAlpha. (slides)
• Itanium 2 Processor Architecture (pdf)
• Pentium 4 (pdf)
• Opteron (pdf)

Insights

• The Design Space of Register Renaming Techniques (pdf)
• Complexity-Effective Superscalar Processors (pdf)
• Understanding Scheduling Replay Schemes (pdf)
• Deconstructing Commit (pdf)
• Clock Rate versus IPC: The End of the Road for Conventional Microarchitectures (pdf)
• International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors 2002 Update (pdf)

Research Reading List

Alternative Designs

• Multiscalar (pdf)
• Raw Machine (pdf)
• The Case for a Single-Chip Multiprocessor (pdf)
• Reducing Memory and Traffic Requirements for Scalable Directory-Based Cache Coherence Schemes (pdf)

Architectural Improvements

• Runahead Execution: An Alternative to Very Large Instruction Windows for Out-of-order Processors (pdf)
• Cherry: Checkpointed Early Resouce Retirement (pdf)
• Trace Cache: a Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching (pdf)
• Increasing Processor Performance by Implementing Deeper Pipelines (pdf)
• Speculative Synchronization: Applying Thread-Level Speculation to Explicitly Parallel Applications (pdf)

Misc

• Enhancing Software Reliability with Speculative Threads (pdf)