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The basic premise of these architectures is that larger, higher-performance implementations can be constructed by replicating the basic tile across the chip. This paper explores the area-performance trade-offs when designing one such tiled architecture, WaveScalar. We use a synthesizable RTL model and cycle-level simulator to perform an area\/performance pareto analysis of over 200 WaveScalar processor designs ranging in size from 19mm<sup>2<\/sup> to 575mm<sup>2<\/sup> and having a 22 FO4 cycle time. We demonstrate that, for multi-threaded workloads, WaveScalar performance scales almost ideally from 19 to 101mm <sup>2<\/sup> when optimized for area efficiency and from 44 to 202mm<sup>2<\/sup> when optimized for peak performance. Our analysis reveals that WaveScalar&#8217;s hierarchical interconnect plays an important role in overall scalability, and that WaveScalar achieves the same (or higher) performance in substantially less area than either an aggressive out-of-order superscalar or Sun&#8217;s Niagara CMP processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiled architectures, such as RAW, SmartMemories, TRIPS, and WaveScalar, promise to address several issues facing conventional processors, including complexity, wire-delay, and performance. The basic premise of these architectures is that larger, higher-performance implementations can be constructed by replicating the basic tile across the chip. 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