CS258: Reading Assignment #8 Due Monday, March 3rd

1. Area-Performance Trade-offs in Tiled Dataflow Architectures, Steve Swanson, Andrew Putnam, Martha Mercaldi, Ken Michelson,Andrew Petersen, Andrew Schwerin, Mark Oskin, and Susan Eggers, Appears in International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2006.
• The WaveScalar website is: http://wavescalar.cs.washington.edu/
  
2. The Distributed Microarchitecture of the TRIPS Prototype Processor, K. Sankaralingam, R. Nagarajan, P. Gratz, R. Desikan, D. Gulati, H. Hanson, C. Kim, H. Liu, N. Ranganathan, S. Sethumadhavan, S. Sharif, P. Shivakumar, W. Yoder, R. McDonald, S.W. Keckler, and D.C. Burger, 39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December, 2006.
• The TRIPS website is: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~trips/
  

Write one paragraph about each paper. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.