IEEE MicroIEEE Micro, a bimonthly publication of the IEEE Computer Society, reaches an international audience of microcomputer and microprocessor designers, system integrators, and users. Readers want to increase their technical knowledge of computers and peripherals; systems, components, and subassemblies; communications, instrumentation, and control equipment; and software.Front Cover- (Found September 18, 2008 )http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=71fb8591017246caa6224c7d1abaa2c5 ImplantBench: Characterizing and Projecting Representative Benchmarks for Emerging Bioimplantable Computing- (Found September 18, 2008 ) Healthcare will advance dramatically when micro- and nanoscale computing chips, implanted in the human body, can assist digitally in clinical diagnosis and therapy. To design and engineer the necessary processor and accelerator architectures, computer architects must first understand the current and potential workloads. ImplantBench, the first attempt at a representative workload taxonomy, includes realistic, full-blown workloads spanning security, reliability, bioinformatics, genomics,...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=33cb9740596e6c78de1f21206724e995 On-Chip Memory System Optimization Design for the FT64 Scientific Stream Accelerator- (Found September 18, 2008 ) With the extension of application domains, hardware-managed memory structures such as caches are drawing attention for dealing with irregular stream applications. However, since a real application usually has both regular and irregular stream characteristics, conventional stream register files, caches, or combinations thereof have shortcomings. This article focuses on combining software- and hardware-managed memory structures and presents a new syncretic memory system based on the FT64 stream...http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=4bde75a991f02c719595eb07d3fbc6b5 A Coarse-Grained Array Accelerator for Software-Defined Radio Baseband Processing- (Found September 18, 2008 ) A shrinking energy budget for mobile devices and increasingly complex communication standards make architecture development for software-defined radio very challenging. Coarse-grained array accelerators are strong candidates for achieving both high performance and low power. The C-programmable hybrid CGA-SIMD accelerator presented here targets emerging broadband cellular and wireless LAN standards, achieving up to 100-Mbps throughput with an average power consumption of 220 mW.http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=3c23094b50e556a01d38e4893abf30dd POD: A 3D-Integrated Broad-Purpose Acceleration Layer- (Found September 18, 2008 ) To build a future many-core processor, industry must address the challenges of energy consumption and performance scalability. A 3D-integrated broad-purpose accelerator architecture called parallel-on-demand (POD) integrates a specialized SIMD-based die layer on top of a CISC superscalar processor to accelerate a variety of data-parallel applications. It also maintains binary compatibility and facilitates extensibility by virtualizing the acceleration capability.http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=a27a99158ad5693a4248423a254daf63 Parallel Computing Experiences with CUDA- (Found September 18, 2008 ) The CUDA programming model provides a straightforward means of describing inherently parallel computations, and NVIDIA's Tesla GPU architecture delivers high computational throughput on massively parallel problems. This article surveys experiences gained in applying CUDA to a diverse set of problems and the parallel speedups over sequential codes running on traditional CPU architectures attained by executing key computations on the GPU.http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=749995a5167d29925d927d522d5862ef Accelerator Architectures- (Found September 18, 2008 )http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=38385f7a8582cd57299403206b1ce0b5 Voting and Economic Asymmetry- (Found September 18, 2008 )http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=37c7db08a2e749dc4b56e52641909026 call-for-papers- (Found September 18, 2008 )http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=26933e662b56a52838ef6a14f6f92679 What Kinds of Computer-Software-Related Advances (if Any) Are Eligible for Patents Part I- (Found September 18, 2008 )http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=88af2643e7a4dc4daa14f8323642b16e |