IEEE recommended practice for powering and grounding electronic equipment. (Color Book Series - Emerald Book)

摘要

Summary form only given, as follows. There seems to be no end tothe higher and higher performance expected of future generations ofmicroprocessors. By the year 2001, process technology will provide 100million transistors on a single silicon die, and by the year 2008, onebillion transistors. Our job: to harness these transistors on behalf ofhigher performance. Performance is always about delivering instructionbandwidth to the core, and then consuming that bandwidth. That meansvery wide issue machines, combined with what it takes to support them.In this talk, we will discuss the major challenges to delivering highinstruction bandwidth, and the major challenges to consuming thatbandwidth, and what we are doing about them. We will look at our twomost recent activities: a very aggressive Trace Cache and SubordinateSimultaneous Microthreading. Finally, we will look at some of whatremains to be done, and what that will look like in the microprocessorof the year 2008