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Reading: Dynamic Register Renaming Through Virtual-Physical Registers

By Doug Reed December 23, 2020microarchitecture, now reading, performanceNo Comments

Dynamic Register Renaming Through Virtual-Physical Registers Journal of Instruction Level Parallelism, 2000 In Summary The authors propose a simple change to PRF allocation that aims to reduce register pressure from…

Reading: Implementation of Precise Interrupts in Pipelined Processors

By dougr33d December 23, 2020microarchitecture, now readingNo Comments

Implementation of Precise Interrupts in Pipelined Processors SIGARCH 1985 In Summary This is Smith/Pleszkun's seminal paper on precise interrupts. At the time, most computer microarchitectures implemented a linear pipeline without…