Held in conjunction with

The 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
(HPCA-12)

Austin, Texas

February 12th 2006

WISA06 Home Page: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/wisa06

HPCA-12 Home Page: http://www.cse.psu.edu/conf/hpca/

Paper Final Version Due: Jan 25th, 2006


WISA06 Final Program (PDF)
Sunday Feb. 12th 2006
01:30pm-03:00pm Session 1: Reconfigurability and Fault Tolerance
General Overview of an Adaptive Dynamic Extensible Processor
Hamid Noori (Kyushu University), Kazuaki Murakami (Kyushu University), Koji Inoue (Kyushu University)
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A Dynamically Reconfigurable Virtual Instrument
Gerd Van den Branden (Erasmushogeschool Brussel), Geert Braeckman (Erasmushogeschool Brussel), Abdellah Touhafi (Erasmushogeschool Brussel), Erik Dirkx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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VOLTaiRE: Low-Cost Fault Detection Solutions for VLIW Microprocessors
Smitha Shyam (University of Michigan), Sujay Phadke (University of Michigan), Benjamin Lui (University of Michigan), Hitesh Gupta (University of Michigan), Valeria Bertacco (University of Michigan), David Blaauw (University of Michigan)
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03:00pm-03:30pm Break
03:30pm-06:00pm Session 2: Micro-Architectural Issues
Cycle-Accurate Microarchitecture Performance Evaluation
Richard Hough (Washington University), Phillip Jones (Washington University), Scott Friedman (Washington University), Roger Chamberlain (Washington University), Jason Fritts (Washington University), John Lockwood (Washington University), Ron Cytron (Washington University)
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A Preliminary Evaluation of Timing-Speculative Instruction Collapsing
Toshinori Sato (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Akihiro Chiyonobu (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
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Self optimizing finite State Machines for Confidence Estimators
Sandra Jackson (Cornell University), Martin Burtscher (Cornell University)
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Phase-based adaptive branch predictor: Seeing the forest for the trees
Karthik Jayaraman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Vivek Shrivastava (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian Pellin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Martin Hock (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mikko H. Lipasti (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Instruction-window Power Reduction Using Data Dependence Metric
Ziad Youssfi (Michigan State University), Michael Shanblatt (Michigan State University)
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