Papers for CS250: VLSI Systems Design

Fall 2010


Wednesday, September 15:

Low Power ARM 1136JF-S(tm) Design. George Kuo, and Anand Iyer. Closing the Power Gap Between ASIC & Custom (book). paper
Power7: IBM's Next-Generation Server Processor. Ron Kalla, Balarm Sinharoy, William J. Starke, Michael Floyd. IEEE Micro, vol. 30, pp 7 -15. paper

Wednesday, September 22:

Implementing the Scale Vector-Thread Processor. Ronny Krashinsky, Christopher Batten, and Krste Asanovic. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 13(3), 41:1-41:24, July 2008. paper
Energy-Performance Tradeoffs in Processor Architecture and Circuit Design: A Marginal Cost Analysis. Omid Azizi, Aqeel Mahesri, Benjamin C. Lee, Sanjay J. Patel, Mark Horowitz. Proceedings of the 31th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-37) 2010. paper