IEEE Micro, Volume 26, 2006

Volume 26, Number 1, January-February 2006

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Measuring the impact of microarchitectural ideas. 5-6

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Format wars all over again. 7, 140

Features

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  Josep Torrellas:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences. 8-9
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  Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, Yale N. Patt:
  Efficient Runahead Execution: Power-Efficient Memory Latency Tolerance. 10-20
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  Ibrahim Hur, Calvin Lin:
  Adaptive History-Based Memory Schedulers for Modern Processors. 22-29
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  Amit Gandhi, Haitham Akkary, Ravi Rajwar, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Konrad Lai:
  Scalable Load and Store Processing in Latency-Tolerant Processors. 30-39
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  Ronald D. Barnes, Shane Ryoo, Wen-mei W. Hwu:
  Tolerating Cache-Miss Latency with Multipass Pipelines. 40-47
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  Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, Jared Stark:
  Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution. 48-58
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  C. Scott Ananian, Krste Asanovic, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Charles E. Leiserson, Sean Lie:
  Unbounded Transactional Memory. 59-69
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  Jason F. Cantin, James E. Smith, Mikko H. Lipasti, Andreas Moshovos, Babak Falsafi:
  Coarse-Grain Coherence Tracking: RegionScout and Region Coherence Arrays. 70-79
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  Jose Renau, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze, Wei Liu, Smruti R. Sarangi, James Tuck, Josep Torrellas:
  Energy-Efficient Thread-Level Speculation. 80-91
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  Mohamed A. Gomaa, T. N. Vijaykumar:
  Opportunistic Transient-Fault Detection. 92-99
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  Satish Narayanasamy, Gilles Pokam, Brad Calder:
  BugNet: Recording Application-Level Execution for Deterministic Replay Debugging. 100-109
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  Lin Tan, Timothy Sherwood:
  Architectures for Bit-Split String Scanning in Intrusion Detection. 110-117
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  Qiang Wu, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clark, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Dan Connors, Youfeng Wu, Jin Lee, David M. Brooks:
  Dynamic-Compiler-Driven Control for Microprocessor Energy and Performance. 119-129
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  Li Shang, Li-Shiuan Peh, Amit Kumar, Niraj K. Jha:
  Temperature-Aware On-Chip Networks. 130-139

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  The future will soon be here. 141-142

Micro Innovations

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  Philip G. Emma:
  How to write a patent. 144

Volume 26, Number 2, March-April 2006

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Workload characterization: A key aspect of microarchitecture design. 5-6

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Andy's acceleration and Moore's momentum. 7

Features

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  John Sell, Alan Jay Smith:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Chips 17. 8-9
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  Michael Gschwind, H. Peter Hofstee, Brian K. Flachs, Martin Hopkins, Yukio Watanabe, Takeshi Yamazaki:
  Synergistic Processing in Cell's Multicore Architecture. 10-24
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  Jeff Andrews, Nick Baker:
  Xbox 360 System Architecture. 25-37
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  Boris Murmann:
  Digitally Assisted Analog Circuits. 38-47
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  Volker Lindenstruth:
  An Extreme Processor for an Extreme Experiment. 48-57
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  Cary Gunn:
  CMOS Photonics for High-Speed Interconnects. 58-66
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  Amit Agarwal, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Arijit Raychowdhury, Kaushik Roy, Chris H. Kim:
  Leakage Power Analysis and Reduction for Nanoscale Circuits. 68-80

Micro Innovations

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  Philip G. Emma:
  The best patents of all. 83-84

Volume 26, Number 3, May-June 2006

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Robust On-Chip Communication. 5

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Room for a Thousand Flowers to Bloom. 6, 93

Features

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  Fabrizio Petrini, Olav Lysne, Ron Brightwell:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: High-Performance Interconnects. 7-9
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  Michael Kistler, Michael Perrone, Fabrizio Petrini:
  Cell Multiprocessor Communication Network: Built for Speed. 10-23
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  Pavan Balaji, Wu-chun Feng, Dhabaleswar K. Panda:
  Bridging the Ethernet-Ethernot Performance Gap. 24-40
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  Ron Brightwell, Kevin T. Pedretti, Keith D. Underwood, Trammell Hudson:
  SeaStar Interconnect: Balanced Bandwidth for Scalable Performance. 41-57
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  Cyriel Minkenberg, François Abel, Peter Müller, Raj Krishnamurthy, Mitchell Gusat, Peter Dill, Ilias Iliadis, Ronald P. Luijten, B. Roe Hemenway, Richard Grzybowski, Enrico Schiattarella:
  Designing a Crossbar Scheduler for HPC Applications. 58-71
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  Li Zhao, Yan Luo, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Ravi R. Iyer:
  A Network Processor-Based, Content-Aware Switch. 72-84

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  More on Old Topics. 86-87

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  Court Dismisses "Copyright Champion's" Source Code Copyright Suit. 88-90

Micro Innovations

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  Philip G. Emma:
  Patent Claims Revisited: Examiners and Trolls. 94-96

Volume 26, Number 4, July-August 2006

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Pre-Silicon Modeling and Analysis: Impact On Real Design. 3

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Legislating Entrepreneurship: An Oxymoron? 4, 86

Features

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  Timothy Sherwood, Joshua J. Yi:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Computer Architecture Simulation and Modeling. 5-7
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  Alaa R. Alameldeen, David A. Wood:
  IPC Considered Harmful for Multiprocessor Workloads. 8-17
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  Thomas F. Wenisch, Roland E. Wunderlich, Michael Ferdman, Anastassia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, James C. Hoe:
  SimFlex: Statistical Sampling of Computer System Simulation. 18-31
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  Michael Van Biesbrouck, Brad Calder, Lieven Eeckhout:
  Efficient Sampling Startup for SimPoint. 32-42
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  Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Youngjae Kim, Anand Sivasubramaniam:
  Using STEAM for Thermal Simulation of Storage Systems. 43-51
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  Nathan L. Binkert, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Lisa R. Hsu, Kevin T. Lim, Ali G. Saidi, Steven K. Reinhardt:
  The M5 Simulator: Modeling Networked Systems. 52-60
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  Yong-Joon Park, Zhao Zhang, Gyungho Lee:
  Microarchitectural Protection Against Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Attacks. 62-71
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  Jesús Alastruey, José Luis Briz, Pablo Ibáñez, Víctor Viñals:
  Software Demand, Hardware Supply. 72-82

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  Old and New. 83-85

Micro Innovations

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  Philip G. Emma:
  The Mechanics of Filing a Patent. 88, 87

Volume 26, Number 5, September-October 2006

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Designing reliable systems with unreliable components. 5-6

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Ubiquitous clicks and complements. 7-8

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  New Jersey federal court holds Qualcomm's unFRANDly acts no antitrust violation. 9

Features

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  Egas Henes Neto, Ivandro Ribeiro, Michele G. Vieira, Gilson I. Wirth, Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt:
  Using Bulk Built-in Current Sensors to Detect Soft Errors. 10-18
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  Kundan Nepal, R. Iris Bahar, Joseph L. Mundy, William R. Patterson, Alexander Zaslavsky:
  MRF Reinforcer: A Probabilistic Element for Space Redundancy in Nanoscale Circuits. 19-27
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  Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Josep Torrellas:
  SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback. 28-40
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  Ricardo E. Gonzalez:
  A Software-Configurable Processor Architecture. 42-51
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  Pedro Javier García, Francisco J. Quiles, José Flich, José Duato, Ian Johnson, Finbar Naven:
  Efficient, Scalable Congestion Management for Interconnection Networks. 52-66
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  Valentina Salapura, Robert Walkup, Alan Gara:
  Exploiting Workload Parallelism for Performance and Power Optimization in Blue Gene. 67-81

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  So many books. 82-83

Micro Innovations

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  Philip G. Emma:
  Prosecuting your patent. 88, 87

Volume 26, Number 6, November/December 2006

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Looking briefly back, and then forward... 8-9

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Four nightmares for net neutrality. 12-13

Features

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  Daniel Gracia Pérez, Hugues Berry, Olivier Temam:
  A Sampling Method Focusing on Practicality. 14-28
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  Osman S. Unsal, James W. Tschanz, Keith A. Bowman, Vivek De, Xavier Vera, Antonio González, Oguz Ergin:
  Impact of Parameter Variations on Circuits and Microarchitecture. 30-39
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  Rajeev Balasubramonian, Naveen Muralimanohar, Karthik Ramani, Liqun Cheng, John B. Carter:
  Leveraging Wire Properties at the Microarchitecture Level. 40-52

Micro Innovations

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  Philip G. Emma:
  Five strategies for overcoming obviousness. 70-72