Proceedings of the IEEK Conference (대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2003.07d
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- Pages.1387-1390
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- 2003
Design of a Load/store Unit for ARM-SMI Microprocessors
ARM-SMI용 Load/store Unit(LSU) 설계
Abstract
The superscalar architecture shows limit in performance improvement recently. While, SMT(Simultaneous Multi-Threading) architecture is receiving remark. The purpose of SMT architecture is to improve the performance of superscalar microprocessors by executing multi threads at the same time. In this paper, a load/store unit(LSU) suitable for ARM-compatible SMT microprocessors is presented. This LSU supports load instructions and store instructions of ARM ISA. This LSU keeps away the degradation of SMT by cache miss.
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