The Case for Polymorphic Registers in Dataflow Computing

Heterogeneous systems are becoming increasingly popular, delivering high performance through hardware specialization. However, sequential data accesses may have a negative impact on performance. Data parallel solutions such as Polymorphic Register Files (PRFs) can potentially accelerate applications by facilitating high-speed, parallel access to...

Customizable Register Files for Multidimensional SIMD Architectures

Processor clock frequencies and the related performance improvements recently stagnated due to severe power and thermal dissipation barriers. As a result, the additional transistors provided by new technology generations are turned into more processing elements on a chip and used for their specialization towards power efficiency. For data...