• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권7호
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• pp.1443-1449
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• 2009

This paper presents a profiling model of a wide-window superscalar microprocessor using multiple branch prediction. The key idea is to apply statistical profiling technique to the superscalar microprocessor with a wide instruction window and a multiple branch predictor. The statistical profiling data are used to obtain a synthetical instruction trace, and the consecutive multiple branch prediction rates are utilized for running trace-driven simulation on the synthesized instruction trace. We describe our design and evaluate it with the SPEC 2000 integer benchmarks. Our performance model can achieve accuracy of 8.5 % on the average.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.423-428
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• 2010

In the initial design phase of superscalar microprocessors, a performance model is necessary. A theoretic performance model is very useful since performance for various architecture parameters can be obtained by simply computing equations, without repeating simulations, Previous studies established theoretic performance models using the relation between the instruction window size and the issue width, with the penalties due to branch mispredictions and cache misses. However, the study was intended for unlimited number of functional units, which is insufficient for the real case application. This paper proposes a superscalar microprocessor theoretical performance model which also works for the limited functional units. To enhance the accuracy of our limited functional unit model, instruction dependency rates are employed. By using trace-driven data of SPEC 2000 integer programs as input, this paper shows that the theoretically computed performance of superscalar microprocessor with limited number of functional units is quite similar to the measured performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1345-1359
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• 1996

This paper presents a floating point arithmetic unit (FPAU) for supescalar microprocessor that executes fifteen operations such as addition, subtraction, data format converting, and compare operation using two pipelined arithmetic paths and new rounding and normalization scheme. By using two pipelined arithmetic paths, each aritchmetic operation can be assigned into appropriate arithmetic path which high speed operation is possible. The proposed normalization an rouding scheme enables the FPAU to execute roundig operation in parallel with normalization and to reduce timing delay of post-normalization. And by predicting leading one position of results using input operands, leading one detection(LOD) operation to normalize results in the conventional arithmetic unit can be eliminated. Because the FPAU can execuate fifteen single-precision or double-precision floating-point arithmetic operations through three-stage pipelined datapath and support IEEE standard 754, it has appropriate structure which can be ingegrated into superscalar microprocessor.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2000

As more transistors are integrated onto bigger die, an on-chip multiprocessor will become a promising alternative to the superscalar microprocessor that dominates today's microprocessor marketplace. This paper describes key parts of a new on-chip multiprocessor, called Raptor, which is composed of four 2-way superscalar processor cores and one graphic co-processor. To obtain performance characteristics of Raptor, a program-driven simulator and its programming environment were developed. The simulation results showed that Raptor can exploit thread level parallelism effectively and offer a promising architecture for future on-chip multi-processor designs.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.558-566
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• 2000

객체 인식은 고성능 컴퓨팅을 필요로 하는 흥미있는 응용 분야이다. 현재 대부분의 고성능 컴퓨터는 슈퍼스칼라 구조의 범용 마이크로프로세서를 채택하고 있으나, 반도체 집적도가 증가함에 따라 슈퍼스칼라 구조를 대신할 다중처리 마이크로프로세서 구조가 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중처리 마이크로프로세서 구조가 객체 인식 응용에 적합한지를 분석한다. 성능 특성을 확인하기 위하여 먼저 프로그램구동방식의 마이크로프로세서 시뮬레이터와 프로그래밍 환경을 개발하였다. 이를 기반으로 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과, 다중처리 마이크로프로세서가 작은 오버헤드로 쓰레드 수준의 병렬성을 적절히 활용하고 있어 객체 인식 응용에 적합한 구조임을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2006

마이크로 프로세서 구조의 성능을 분석할 때, 트레이스 구동형 모의실험이 광범위하게 수행되고 있으나, 시간과 공간을 많이 차지하기 때문에 최근에 이르러 통계적 모의실험이 그 대안으로 떠오르고 있다. 기존의 통계적 모의실험이 단일 분기 예측법에 대하여 연구가 수행된 것과 달리, 본 논문에서는 다중 분기 예측법을 이용하는 고성능 수퍼스칼라 프로세서에 대한 통계적 프로화일링 모델을 제안하였다. 이때, 다중 분기 예측법은 최근 들어 유망한 기법으로 대두되고 있는 퍼셉트론 분기 예측법을 기반으로 하였다. 이것을 위하여 SPEC 2000 벤치마크 프로그램의 특성을 통계적 프로화일링 기법으로 모델링하고, 여기서 얻은 통계적 프로화일을 바탕으로 벤치마크 트레이스를 합성하여 모의실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과, 제안하는 방식으로 다중 분기 예측을 이용하는 수퍼스칼라 프로세서에서도 비교적 높은 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2001

현재 대부분의 상용 마이크로프로세서는 슈퍼스칼라 구조를 채택하고 있으나, 반도체 집적도가 증가함에 따라 슈퍼 스칼라 구조를 대신할 새로운 마이크로프로세서 구조가 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 최근 새로운 마이크로프로세서 구조로 급부상하고 있는 다중처리 마이크로프로세서 구조가 차세대 블록 암호화 알고리즘에 적합한지를 분석한다. 즉, 차세대 블록 암호화 알고리즘인 RC6와 Rijndael에서의 병렬성을 분석하기 위하여 프로그램 구동방식의 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과, 명령어 수준 병렬성만으로는 성능의 한계를 갖지만 쓰레드 수준 병렬성을 동시에 활용함으로써 추가적인 성능 향상을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1153-1156
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• 1998

We describe a design of a simple but efficient floatingpoint processing architecture expoiting concurrent execution of scalar instructions for high performance in general-purpose microprocessors. This architecture employs 3 stage pipeline asyncronously working with integer processing unit to regulate instruction flows between two arithmetic units.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제34C권9호
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• pp.43-52
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• 1997

Processors using the superscalar rchitecture can achieve high performance by executing multipel instructions in a clock cycle. It is made possible by having multiple functional units and issuing multiple instructions to functional units simultaneously. But instructions can be dependent on one another and these dependencies prevent some instructions form being issued at the same cycle. In this paper, we designed an issue unit of a superscalar RISC microprocessor that can issue four instructions per cycle. The issue unit receives instructions form a prefetch unit, and issues them in order at a rate of as high as four instructions in one cycle for maximum utilization of functional units. By using an instruction buffer, the unit decouples instruction fetch and issue to improve instruction ussue rate. The issue unit is composed of an instruction buffer and an instruction decoder. The instruction buffer aligns and stores instructions from the prefetch unit, and sends the earliest four available isstructions to the instruction decoder. The instruction decoder decodes instructions, and issues them if they are free form data dependencies and necessary functional units and rgister file prots are available. The issue unit is described with behavioral level HDL (lhardware description language). The result of simulation using C programs shows that instruction issue rate is improved as the instruction buffer size increases, and 12-entry instruction buffer is found to be optimum considering performance and hardware cost of the instruction buffer.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1332-1344
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• 1996

This paper presents a pipelined floating point multiplier(FMUL) for superscalar microprocessors that conbines radix-16 recoding scheme based on signed-digit(SD) number system and new rouding and normalization scheme. The new rounding and normalization scheme enable the FMUL to compute sticky bit in parallel with multiple operation and elminate timing delay due to post-normalization. By expoliting SD radix-16 recoding scheme, we can achieves further reduction of silicon area and computation time. The FMUL can execute signle-precision or double-precision floating-point multiply operation through three-stage pipelined datapath and support IEEE standard 754. The algorithm andstructure of the designed multiplier have been successfully verified through Verilog HOL modeling and simulation.