Decoupled Access/Execute Computer Architectures (1984)
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| Venue: | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems |
| Citations: | 149 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Smith84decoupledaccess/execute,
author = {James E. Smith},
title = {Decoupled Access/Execute Computer Architectures},
booktitle = {ACM Transactions on Computer Systems},
year = {1984},
pages = {112--119}
}
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Abstract
An architecture for improving computer performance is presented and discussed. The main feature._-.-.- of the architecture is a high degree of decoupling between operand access anb execution. This results in an implementation which has two separate queues. instruction streams that communicate A similar architecture has via been previously proposed for array processors, but in that context the software is called on to do most of the the coordination and instruction streams. synchronization This paper between emphasizes implementation features that remove this burden from the programmer. Performance comparisons with a conventional scalar architecture are given, and these show that considerable performance gains are possible. Single instruction stream versions, both physical and conceptual, are discussed with the primary goal of minimizing the differences with conventional architectures. This would allow known compilation and programing techniques to be used. Finally, the problem of deadlock in such a system is discussed, and one possible solution is given. 1.
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