By: juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com), April 21, 2015 5:01 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com) on April 21, 2015 12:51 pm wrote:
> registers are a fast data storage but also expensive in two aspect:
> 1) They takes a lot of transistors;
> 2) Adding registers make every register access slower and takes more energy.
>
What about clustered register or hierarchical registers? Don't partially alleviate issue (2) for larger register file?
> registers are a fast data storage but also expensive in two aspect:
> 1) They takes a lot of transistors;
> 2) Adding registers make every register access slower and takes more energy.
>
What about clustered register or hierarchical registers? Don't partially alleviate issue (2) for larger register file?