• DocumentCode
    2393644
  • Title

    Pseudo vector processor for high-speed list vector computation with hiding memory access latency

  • Author

    Nakamura, Hajime ; Wakabayashi, Tetsushi ; Nakazawa, K. ; Boku, Taisuke ; Wada ; Inagami

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Electron., Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki, Japan
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    22-26 Aug 1994
  • Firstpage
    338
  • Abstract
    We present two scalar processors called PVP-SWPC and PVP-SWSW for high-speed list vector processing. Memory access latency should be tolerated for this objective. PVP-SWPC tolerates the latency by introducing slide-windowed floating-point registers and prefetch-to-cache instruction. PVP-SWSW tolerates the latency by introducing slide-windowed general and floating-point registers. Owing to the slide-window structure, both processors can utilize more registers in keeping upward compatibility with existing scalar architecture. The evaluation shows that these processors successfully hide memory latency and realize fast list vector processing
  • Keywords
    cache storage; floating point arithmetic; pipeline processing; vector processor systems; PVP-SWPC; PVP-SWSW; hiding memory access latency; high-speed list vector computation; high-speed list vector processing; pipelined memory; prefetch-to-cache instruction; pseudo vector processor; scalar architecture; scalar processors; slide-windowed floating-point registers; Arithmetic; Computer architecture; Data engineering; Delay; Laboratories; Microprocessors; Prefetching; Registers; Supercomputers; Vector processors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    TENCON '94. IEEE Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference. Theme: Frontiers of Computer Technology. Proceedings of 1994
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-1862-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TENCON.1994.369282
  • Filename
    369282