The raw microprocessor: A computational fabric for software circuits and general-purpose programs

Michael Bedford Taylor; Jason Kim; Jason Miller; David Wentzlaff; Fae Ghodrat; Ben Greenwald; Henry Hoffman; Paul Johnson; Jae Wook Lee; Walter Lee; Albert Ma; Arvind Saraf; Mark Seneski; Nathan Shnidman; Volker Strumpen; Matt Frank; Saman Amarasinghe; Anant Agarwal

doi:10.1109/MM.2002.997877

The raw microprocessor: A computational fabric for software circuits and general-purpose programs

Michael Bedford Taylor
, Jason Kim
, Jason Miller
, David Wentzlaff
, Fae Ghodrat
, Ben Greenwald
, Henry Hoffman
, Paul Johnson
, Jae Wook Lee
, Walter Lee
, Albert Ma
, Arvind Saraf
, Mark Seneski
, Nathan Shnidman
, Volker Strumpen
, Matt Frank
, Saman Amarasinghe
, Anant Agarwal

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Abstract

Wire delay is a natural limiter to microprocessor scalability. A new architectural approach, the Raw microprocessor, not only solves this problem but also delivers unprecedented performance, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	25-35
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	22
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2002.997877
State	Published - Mar 2002
Externally published	Yes

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Software
Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Taylor, M. B., Kim, J., Miller, J., Wentzlaff, D., Ghodrat, F., Greenwald, B., Hoffman, H., Johnson, P., Lee, J. W., Lee, W., Ma, A., Saraf, A., Seneski, M., Shnidman, N., Strumpen, V., Frank, M., Amarasinghe, S., & Agarwal, A. (2002). The raw microprocessor: A computational fabric for software circuits and general-purpose programs. IEEE Micro, 22(2), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2002.997877

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