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Mutable functional units: initial results.
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Solihin, Yan Cameron, Kirk W. Luo, Yong Lavenier, Dominique Gokhale, Maya |
| Abstract | this paper, we propose to extend oating-point adder units with the capability to execute integer instructions. Floating-point adder already contains most of the hardware needed for integer execution. Simply extending the operand width and adding a few switches enable the units to be "recongured" to execute the dierent types of instruction. We call these units mutable functional units or MFUs, and the reconguration process as mutation. To exploit MFUs, we need to mutate them according to program's needs during its execution. Thus, the mutation must happen at run-time with low overhead |
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| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Mutable Functional Unit Initial Result Floating-point Adder Integer Instruction Reconguration Process Dierent Type Functional Unit Oating-point Adder Unit Low Overhead Integer Execution Operand Width |
| Content Type | Text |
