• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2011

Recently, as mobile multimedia devices are used more and more, the needs for high-performance and low-energy multimedia processors are increasing. Application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) can meet the needed high performance for mobile multimedia, but they provide limited, if any, generality needed for various application requirements. DSP based systems can used for various types of applications due to their generality, but they require higher cost and energy consumption as well as less performance than ASICs. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) based many-core processor which supports high-performance and low-power image data processing while keeping generality. The proposed SIMD based many-core processor composed of 16 processing elements (PEs) exploits large data parallelism inherent in image data processing. Experimental results indicate that the proposed SIMD-based many-core processor higher performance (22 times better), energy efficiency (7 times better), and area efficiency (3 times better) than conversional commercial high-performance processors.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.576-586
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• 2008

In most parallel loops of embedded applications, every iteration executes the exact same sequence of instructions while manipulating different data. This fact motivates a new compiler-hardware orchestrated execution framework in which all parallel threads share one fetch unit and one decode unit but have their own execution, memory, and write-back units. This resource sharing enables parallel threads to execute in lockstep with minimal hardware extension and compiler support. Our proposed architecture, called multithreaded lockstep execution processor (MLEP), is a compromise between the single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) and symmetric multithreading/chip multiprocessor (SMT/CMP) solutions. The proposed approach is more favorable than a typical SIMD execution in terms of degree of parallelism, range of applicability, and code generation, and can save more power and chip area than the SMT/CMP approach without significant performance degradation. For the architecture verification, we extend a commercial 32-bit embedded core AE32000C and synthesize it on Xilinx FPGA. Compared to the original architecture, our approach is 13.5% faster with a 2-way MLEP and 33.7% faster with a 4-way MLEP in EEMBC benchmarks which are automatically parallelized by the Intel compiler.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.21-23
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• 1998

본 논문에서 ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism)의 성능향상을 위하여 데이터 값들을 미리 예측하여 병렬로 이슈(issue)하고 수행하는 기존의 데이터 값 예측기(data value predictor)를 비교 분석하여 각 예측기의 예측율을 측정하고, 2-단계 데이터 값 예측기(Two-Level Data Value Predictor)와 혼합형 데이터 값 예측기(Hydrid Data Value Predictor)에서 발생되는 aiasing 을 측정하기 위해 수정된 데이터 값 예측기를 사용하여 측정한 결과 aliasing은 50% 감소하였지만 예측율에는 영향을 미치지 못함과 데이터 값 예측기의 예측율을 측정한 결과 혼합형 데이터 값 예측기의 예측율이 2-단계 데이터 값 예측기와 스트라이드 데이터 값 예측기(Stride Data Value Predictor)에서 평균 5.7%, 최근 값 예측기(Last Data Value Predictor)보다는 평균 38%의 예측 정확도가 높음을 입증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.5C
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• pp.512-521
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• 2002

Recently, conventional superscalar RISC processors arrive their performance limit, and many researches on the next-generation architecture are concentrated on SMT(Simultaneous Multi-Threading). In SMT processors, multiple threads are executed simultaneously and share hardware resources dynamically. In this case, it is more important to supply instructions from multiple threads to processor core efficiently than ever. Because SMT architecture shows higher IPC(Instructions per cycle) than superscalar architecture, performance is influenced by fetch bandwidth and the size of fetch queue. Moreover, to use TLP(Thread Level Parallelism) efficiently, fetch thread selection algorithm and fetch bandwidth for each selected threads must be carefully designed. Thus, in this paper, the performance values influenced by these factors are analyzed. Based on the results, an optimal instruction fetch strategy for SMT processors is proposed.

• Agribusiness and Information Management
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.43-60
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• 2009

To improve the performance of wide-issue superscalar processors, it is essential to increase the width of instruction fetch and the issue rate. Removal of control hazard has been put forward as a significant new source of instruction-level parallelism for superscalar processors and the conditional branch prediction is an important technique for improving processor performance. Branch mispredictions, however, waste a large number of cycles, inhibit out-of-order execution, and waste electric power on mis-speculated instructions. Hence, the branch predictor with higher accuracy is necessary for good processor performance. In global-history-based predictors like gshare and GAg, many mispredictions come from commit update of the branch history. Some works on this subject have discussed the need for speculative update of the history and recovery mechanisms for branch mispredictions. In this paper, we present a new mechanism for recovering the branch history after a misprediction. The proposed mechanism adds an age_counter to the original predictor and doubles the size of the branch history register. The age_counter counts the number of outstanding branches and uses it to recover the branch history register. Simulation results on the SimpleScalar 3.0/PISA tool set and the SPECINT95 benchmarks show that gshare and GAg with the proposed recovery mechanism improved the average prediction accuracy by 2.14% and 9.21%, respectively and the average IPC by 8.75% and 18.08%, respectively over the original predictor.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1497-1501
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• 2005

Branch instructions which make the sequential instruction flow changed cause pipeline stalls in microprocessor. The pipeline hazard due to branch instructions are the most serious problem that degrades the performance of microprocessors. Branch target buffer predicts whether a branch will be taken or not and supplies the address of the next instruction on the basis of that prediction. If the hanch target buffer predicts correctly, the instruction flow will not be stalled. This leads to the better performance of microprocessor. In this paper, the architecture of a ta8 memory that branch target buffer and TLB can share is presented. Because the two tag memories used for branch target buffer and TLB each is replaced by single combined tag memory, we can expect the smaller chip size and the faster prediction. This shared tag architecture is more advantageous for the microprocessors that uses more bits of address and exploits much more instruction level parallelism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.700-702
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• 1998

자바(Java)의 수행 성능을 향상시키기 위한 방법으로 자바 프로세서가 제안되었다. 그러나 현재의 자바 프로세서는 자바 가상 머신(Java Virtual Macjine)의 구조만을 고려한 것이다. 본 논문에서는 기존 자바 프로세서의 성능을 향상시키는 자바 프로그래밍에서 사용되는 다중스레드를 직접 지원하는 새로운 자바 프로세서인 동시 다중스레드 자바 칩(Simultaneous Multithreaded Java Chip SMTJC)을 제안한다. SMTJC은 두 개의 독립적인 스레드를 동시에 수행함으로써, 자바 프로그램에서의 명령어 수준 병렬성(Instruction level parallelism)을 향상시킨다. 다중스레드 수행을 위해 새로운 스택 캐쉬의 구조 및 운영 방법을 사용한다. JavaSim을 통한 시뮬레이션은 SMTJC 이 기존 자바 프로세서에 비해 이중 스택 캐쉬와 추가적 처리 유닛들로 인해 1.28~2.00의 전체적 수행 성능이 향상됨을 보여준다. 본 연구는 하드웨어와 소프트웨어의 상호 보안적인 기술적 경향을 배경으로 자바의 언어적 특성을 고려한 프로세서를 설계, 지원함으로써 자바 프로세서의 성능 향상을 도모하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1083-1086
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• 2005

Modern superscalar processors exploit Instruction Level Parallelism to achieve high performance by speculative techniques such as branch prediction. The indirect branch target prediction is very difficult compared to the prediction of direct branch target and branch direction, since it has dynamically polymorphic target. We present a accurate and hardware-efficient indirect branch target predictor. It can reduce the tags which has to be stored in the Indirect Branch Target Cache without a sacrifice of the prediction accuracy. We implement the proposed scheme on SimpleScalar and show the efficiency running SPEC95 benchmarks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.636-638
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• 2000

제어 독립성(Control Independence)은 슈퍼스칼라 프로세서에서 명령어 수준 병렬성(Instruction-Level Parallelism)을 향상시키기 위한 중요한 요소로 작용하고 있다. 분기 예상기법(Branch Prediction Mechanism)에서 잘못 예상될 경우에는 예상한 분기 방향의 명령어들을 제거하고 올바른 분기 방향의 명령어들을 다시 반입하여 수행해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 컴파일 시 프로파일링을 통한 정적인 방법과 프로그램상의 제어 흐름을 통해 동적으로 제어 독립적인 명령어를 탐지함으로써 분기 명령어의 잘못된 예상으로 인해 제거되는 명령어를 효과적으로 감소시켜 프로세서의 성능을 향상시키는 메커니즘을 제안한다. SPECint95 벤치마크 프로그램에 대해 기존의 방법과 본 논문에서 제안한 방법 사이의 사이클 당 수행된 명령어 수를 분석한 결과, 4-width 프로세서에서 4%~6%, 8-width 프로세서에서 11%~18%, 16-width 프로세서에서 15%~17%의 성능 향상을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

A multiprocessor microprocessor named SMPC(scaleable multiprocessor chip) that contains tow IU (integer unit) is presented in this paper. It can execute multiple instructions from several tasks exploiting task-level parallelism that is free from instruction dependencies, and provide high performance and throughput on both single program and multiprogramming environments. the IU is a 32-bit scalar processor expecially designed to boost up the performance of string manipulations which are frequently used in RDBMS(relational data base management system) applications. A memory management unit and a data cache shared by two IUs improve the performance and reduce the chip area required. ETH SMPC is implemented in VLSI circuit by custom design and automated design tools.