To deal with the increasing varitations of the intra-chip transisters, one promising approach is to dynamically detect and recover the timing-errors with microarchitecutre. This will induce dependability and efficiency into microprocessors because it allows VLSI to operate at the optimum frequency and voltage while ensuring accuracy. A few approaches for dynamically detecting timing-errors have been proposed, but none of them have focused on register writes. In this paper, we propose a technique for detecting and recovering from timing errors during register writes. We introduce a verifying technique that uses additional buffer (called the write assurance buffer (WAB)) which is provided with a sufficient timing margin. The evaluation results reveal a performance degradation of 4.5% using an 8-entry WAB; this value becomes negligible when a 16-entry WAB is used.
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