IEEE Micro, Volume 24, 2004

Volume 24, Number 1, January/February

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Editor in Chief's Message: New Challenges and Burning Issues. 5

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  Challenging Search Engines and Pop-Ups Under Copyright Law: Part 2. 7

Hot Interconnects 11

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  J. Bryan Lyles:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Hot Interconnects 11 - Solving Network Bottlenecks. 8-9
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  Justin Gus Hurwitz, Wu-chun Feng:
  End-to-End Performance of 10-Gigabit Ethernet on Commodity Systems. 10-22
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  Greg J. Regnier, Dave B. Minturn, Gary L. McAlpine, Vikram A. Saletore, Annie P. Foong:
  ETA: Experience with an Intel Xeon Processor as a Packet Processing Engine. 24-31
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  Andrew Lines:
  Asynchronous Interconnect for Synchronous SoC Design. 32-41
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  Jiuxing Liu, B. Chandrasekaran, Weikuan Yu, Jiesheng Wu, Darius Buntinas, Sushmitha P. Kini, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Pete Wyckoff:
  Microbenchmark Performance Comparison of High-Speed Cluster Interconnects. 42-51
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  Sarang Dharmapurikar, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Todd S. Sproull, John W. Lockwood:
  Deep Packet Inspection using Parallel Bloom Filters. 52-61
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  David V. Schuehler, James Moscola, John W. Lockwood:
  Architecture for a Hardware-Based, TCP/IP Content-Processing System. 62-69

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  Single Sourcing Mount Fuji. 74-75

Micro Economics

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  Shane M. Greenstein:
  Why Inventors are not Famous. 76-78

Parting Thoughts

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  Charles R. Moore:
  Managing the Transition from Complexity to Elegance: Design Convergence. 80

Volume 24, Number 2, March/April 2004

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  EIC's Message: Chip-level microarchitecture trends. 5-

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  Challenging search engines and pop-ups under copyright law--Part 3. 6, 70-72

Hot Chips 15

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  Michael J. Flynn, Pradeep K. Dubey:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Chips 15--Scaling the Silicon Mountain. 7-9
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  Stefan Rusu, Harry Muljono, Brian S. Cherkauer:
  Itanium 2 Processor 6M: Higher Frequency and Larger L3 Cache. 10-18
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  Sanjiv Kapil, Harlan McGhan, Jesse Lawrendra:
  A Chip Multithreaded Processor for Network-Facing Workloads. 20-30
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  Deepu Talla, Ching-Yu Hung, Raj Talluri, Frank Brill, David Smith, David Brier, Bruce Xiong, Derek Huynh:
  Anatomy of a Portable Digital Mediaprocessor. 32-39
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  Ronald N. Kalla, Balaram Sinharoy, Joel M. Tendler:
  IBM Power5 Chip: A Dual-Core Multithreaded Processor. 40-47
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  Uri Cummings:
  PivotPoint: Clockless Crossbar Switch for High-Performance Embedded Systems. 48-59
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  V. C. Ravikumar, Rabi N. Mahapatra:
  TCAM Architecture for IP Lookup Using Prefix Properties. 60-69

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  The paradox of commodities. 73-75

News

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  Micro News. 76-77

Parting Thoughts

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  Chuck Moore:
  Getting it right. 79-80

Volume 24, Number 3, May/June 2004

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  EIC's Message: General-purpose versus application-specific processors. 5-

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  Collecting patent infringement damages on unpatented products. 6-7

Application-Specific Processors

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  Alexander V. Veidenbaum:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Application-Specific Processors. 8-9
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  Michael L. Chu, Kevin Fan, Rajiv A. Ravindran, Scott A. Mahlke:
  Cost-Sensitive Partitioning in an Architecture Synthesis System for Multicluster Processors. 10-20
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  Peter Petrov, Alex Orailoglu:
  Transforming Binary Code for Low-Power Embedded Processors. 21-33
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  Alireza Hodjat, Ingrid Verbauwhede:
  High-Throughput Programmable Cryptocoprocessor. 34-45
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  Matthias Meyer:
  A Novel Processor Architecture with Exact Tag-Free Pointers. 46-55
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  Faraydon Karim, Alain Mellan, Anh Nguyen, Utku Aydonat, Tarek S. Abdelrahman:
  A Multilevel Computing Architecture for Embedded Multimedia Applications. 56-66

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Imitation happens. 67-69

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  Back to the future. 70-71

Micro News

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  Micro News. 72-

Volume 24, Number 4, July/August 2004

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Editor in Chief's Message: Saving power-Lessons from embedded systems. 5-6

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  FTC turns back challenge on patent coverage. 7

Application-Specific Processors

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  Alessio Bechini, Thomas M. Conte, Cosimo Antonio Prete:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Opportunities and Challenges in Embedded Systems. 8-9
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  Alexander G. Dean:
  Efficient Real-Time Fine-Grained Concurrency on Low-Cost Microcontrollers. 10-22
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  Francisco J. Cazorla, Alex Ramírez, Mateo Valero, Peter M. W. Knijnenburg, Rizos Sakellariou, Enrique Fernández:
  QoS for High-Performance SMT Processors in Embedded Systems. 24-31
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  Taeweon Suh, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Douglas M. Blough:
  Integrating Cache Coherence Protocols for Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems, Part 1. 33-41
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  David Andrews, Douglas Niehaus, Razali Jidin, Michael Finley, Wesley Peck, Michael Frisbie, Jorge L. Ortiz, Ed Komp, Peter J. Ashenden:
  Programming Models for Hybrid FPGA-CPU Computational Components: A Missing Link. 42-53
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  Sridhar Rajagopal, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Scott Rixner:
  Design Space Exploration for Real-Time Embedded Stream Processors. 54-66
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  Andreas Krall, Ivan Pryanishnikov, Ulrich Hirnschrott, Christian Panis:
  xDSPcore: A Compiler-Based Configurable Digital Signal Processor. 67-78

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  The diamond-wafer paradox: A modern mystery. 79-81

Micro News

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  Micro News. 82-

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  Attacking complexity. 87-88

Volume 24, Number 5, September-October 2004

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Communication versus Computation. 5

Micro Law

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  Richard H. Stern:
  Vicarious liability for infringement. 6

Network Processors

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  Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Nikos A. Nikolaou, Bharat T. Doshi, Eric Grosse:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Network Processors for Future High-End Systems and Applications. 7-9
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  Jakob Carlström, Thomas Boden:
  Synchronous Dataflow Architecture for Network Processors. 10-18
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  Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Stylianos Perissakis, Theofanis Orphanoudakis, Nikos A. Nikolaou, George Kornaros, Nicholas Zervos, George E. Konstantoulakis, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, Kyriakos Vlachos:
  PRO3: A Hybrid NPU Architecture. 20-33
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  Yan Luo, Jun Yang, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Li Zhao:
  NePSim: A Network Processor Simulator with a Power Evaluation Framework. 34-44
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  Niraj Shah, William Plishker, Kaushik Ravindran, Kurt Keutzer:
  NP-Click: A Productive Software Development Approach for Network Processors. 45-54
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  Zhangxi Tan, Chuang Lin, Hao Yin, Bo Li:
  Optimization and Benchmark of Cryptographic Algorithms on Network Processors. 55-69
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  Taeweon Suh, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Douglas M. Blough:
  Integrating Cache Coherence Protocols for Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Systems, Part 2. 70-78

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Creative Destruction and Deconstruction. 83-85

Micro Review

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  Richard Mateosian:
  Seek and Show. 86-88

Volume 24, Number 6, November-December 2004

Editor-in-Chief's Message

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  Pradip Bose:
  Computer architecture research: Shifting priorities and newer challenges. 5

Micro Economics

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  Shane Greenstein:
  Canaries, whips, and sails. 6-7

Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences

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  David H. Albonesi:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences. 8-9
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  Dan Ernst, Shidhartha Das, Seokwoo Lee, David T. Blaauw, Todd M. Austin, Trevor N. Mudge, Nam Sung Kim, Krisztián Flautner:
  Razor: Circuit-Level Correction of Timing Errors for Low-Power Operation. 10-20
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  Jared C. Smolens, Brian T. Gold, Jangwoo Kim, Babak Falsafi, James C. Hoe, Andreas Nowatzyk:
  Fingerprinting: Bounding Soft-Error-Detection Latency and Bandwidth. 22-29
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  Christopher T. Weaver, Joel S. Emer, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Steven K. Reinhardt:
  Reducing the Soft-Error Rate of a High-Performance Microprocessor. 30-37
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  Xiaodong Li, Zhenmin Li, Pin Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhou, Sarita V. Adve, Sanjeev Kumar:
  Performance-Directed Energy Management for Storage Systems. 38-49
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  Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas:
  iWatcher: Simple, General Architectural Support for Software Debugging. 50-56
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  Brian A. Fields, Rastislav Bodík, Mark D. Hill, Chris J. Newburn:
  Interaction Cost: For When Event Counts Just Don't Add Up. 57-61
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  Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Ravi Rajwar, Haitham Akkary, Amit Gandhi, Michael Upton:
  Continual Flow Pipelines: Achieving Resource-Efficient Latency Tolerance. 62-73
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  Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, Hong Wang, Dongkeun Kim, Bill Greene, Kai-Ming Chan, Aamir B. Yunus, Terry Sych, Stephen F. Moore, John Paul Shen:
  Helper Threads via Virtual Multithreading. 74-82
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  Ronny Krashinsky, Christopher Batten, Mark Hampton, Steve Gerding, Brian Pharris, Jared Casper, Krste Asanovic:
  The Vector-Thread Architecture. 84-90
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  Lance Hammond, Brian D. Carlstrom, Vicky Wong, Michael K. Chen, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun:
  Transactional Coherence and Consistency: Simplifying Parallel Hardware and Software. 92-103
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  Jaehyuk Huh, Doug Burger, Jichuan Chang, Gurindar S. Sohi:
  Speculative Incoherent Cache Protocols. 104-109
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  Harold W. Cain, Mikko H. Lipasti:
  Memory Ordering: A Value-Based Approach. 110-117
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  Simha Sethumadhavan, Rajagopalan Desikan, Doug Burger, Charles R. Moore, Stephen W. Keckler:
  Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation for High-ILP Processors. 118-127

Departments

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  Micro News. 129
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  Richard Mateosian:
  Micro Review: More on old themes. 133-134