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On the Impact of Performance Faults in Modern Microprocessors
2013
Journal of electronic testing
Modern microprocessors incorporate a variety of architectural features, such as branch prediction and speculative execution, which are not critical to the correctness of their operation yet are essential towards improving performance. Accordingly, while faults in the corresponding hardware may not necessarily affect functional correctness, they may, nevertheless, adversely impact performance. In this paper, we investigate quantitatively the performance impact of such faults using a superscalar,
doi:10.1007/s10836-013-5360-5
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