Prof. Steve Keckler will be teaching this class and he requested that you read the following paper before the class:

  • Burger, D. , Keckler, S.W. , McKinley, K.S. , Dahlin, M. , John, L.K. , Lin, C. , Moore, C.R. , Burrill, J. , McDonald, R.G. , Yoder, W. and others (2004) Scaling to the End of Silicon with EDGE Architectures. COMPUTER. ((URL)) (BibTeX)

In addition Yale Patt recommends this related paper, which explores very similar ISA ideas for somewhat different reasons:

  • Stephen Melvin and Yale Patt (1991) Exploiting fine-grained parallelism through a combination of hardware and software techniques. SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 19(3):287–296. ((URL)) (BibTeX)