Affiliation:
1. Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Abstract
Advances in IC processing allow for more microprocessor design options. The increasing gate density and cost of wires in advanced integrated circuit technologies require that we look for new ways to use their capabilities effectively. This paper shows that in advanced technologies it is possible to implement a single-chip multiprocessor in the same area as a wide issue superscalar processor. We find that for applications with little parallelism the performance of the two microarchitectures is comparable. For applications with large amounts of parallelism at both the fine and coarse grained levels, the multiprocessor microarchitecture outperforms the superscalar architecture by a significant margin. Single-chip multiprocessor architectures have the advantage in that they offer localized implementation of a high-clock rate processor for inherently sequential applications and low latency interprocessor communication for parallel applications.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software
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