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Computer Architecture Enables Simplified Recovery from Speculative Execution Errors without Checkpoints
The effective speed of computer processors may be increased by speculative execution in which computer instructions are executed before the data necessary for that execution are available. Speculation...
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Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Marc De Kruijf, Chen-Han Ho | P110133US01
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Design of Keyboard for Improved Accessibility to Electronics
Modern public information and transaction machines such as kiosks and automated teller machines (ATMs) frequently employ a touch screen in conjunction with a computer to provide multimedia capabilitie...
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Gregg Vanderheiden, David Kelso, J. Bern Jordan | P08092US03
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Signature-Based Transactional Memory for Improved Performance of Multiple Thread Microprocessors
Multicore processor technology allows a program to utilize resources efficiently by splitting into concurrently running tasks, or threads. Problems exist when these tasks access the same data. If one ...
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Michael Swift, David Wood, Mark Hill, Michael Marty, Luke Yen, Kevin Moore, Jayaram Bobba, Haris Volos | P07519US
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Spin Readout and Initialization in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Quantum computers use quantum particles (e.g., electrons), called qubits, to process information, instead of bits as in classical, serial computing. Unlike bits, which exist in either the 0 or 1 state...
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Mark Friesen, Mark Eriksson, Charles Tahan, Robert Joynt | P04175US
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SISO Model Predictive Controller
Currently, most single-input, single-output (SISO) systems use a proportional, integral, derivative (PID) controller. The PID controller is simple, fast, and easily implemented on simple computing har...
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James Rawlings, Gabriele Pannocchia, Nabil Laachi | P04113US
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Scalable Monitor of Malicious Network Traffic
UW-Madison researchers previously described a system of analyzing malicious network traffic to automatically generate signatures that may be used by a network intrusion detection system (NIDS) to prot...
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Paul Barford, Vinod Yegneswaran, David Plonka | P05182US
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Adaptive Cache Compression System
The speed at which a computer executes its workload is constrained by the time it takes for data and instructions to be transferred from its memory to its processor. To reduce this “memory laten...
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David Wood, Alaa Alameldeen | P04273US
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Multi-Mode Liquid Cooling System for Electronics, Including Computers
To remove the substantial heat generated by today’s most powerful microprocessors, many high-performance and personal computers use liquid cooling, rather than air cooling, technology. Research ...
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Timothy Shedd, Adam Pautsch | P05107US
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Low Swing Domino Logic Circuits Reduce Power Consumption in High-Performance Microprocessors
Domino logic circuit techniques have been extensively applied in modern high-performance microprocessors because of their superior speed and area characteristics as compared to static complementary me...
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Volkan Kursun, Zhiyu Liu | P06065US
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Thin-Film Semiconductor for Increasing Microprocessor Speeds
Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology is commonly used in integrated circuits for microelectronics. Current is produced in semiconductor devices by using mobile charge carriers, ei...
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Max Lagally, Shelley Scott, Donald Savage | P07485US
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Over-Provisioned Multicore Processor Computing System
Today, computer processors may have dual or multiple “cores,” the processing parts of central processing unit (CPU) chips, to exploit increasing transistor density. Typically, cores are pr...
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Gurindar Sohi, Koushik Chakraborty, Philip Wells | P07520US
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Domino Logic Circuits Capable of Reducing Power Consumption by Controlling Leakage
In modern high-performance microprocessor circuits, gates made of an oxide, such as SiO2, act as insulators. As electronic devices become increasingly miniaturized, gates are becoming smaller and may ...
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Volkan Kursun, Zhiyu Liu | P05380US