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High-Bandwidth Address Translation for Multiple-Issue Processors

Overview In an effort to push the envelope of system performance, microprocessor designs are continually exploiting higher levels of instruction-level parallelism, resulting in increasing bandwidth demands on the address translation mechanism. Most current microprocessor designs meet this demand with a multi-ported TLB. While this design provides an excellent hit rate at each port, its access latency and area grow very quickly as the number of ports is increased. As bandwidth demands continue to increase, multi-ported designs will soon impact memory access latency. This paper presents four high-bandwidth address translation mechanisms with latency and area characteristics that scale better than a multi-ported TLB design.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin-Madison
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Jul 11, 2008
Format
White Papers
Topics
Microprocessors, Processors, Bandwidth Issues

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