The
SIGMICRO Test of Time (ToT) Award recognizes influential papers from prior editions of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). It was first awarded in 2014 (a special inaugural year recognizing 10 papers from 1968–1992) and has since been awarded annually, typically to papers published years prior to the award year. ; Recent and past recipients • 2024 (for MICRO 2006):
Utility-Based Cache Partitioning: A Low-Overhead, High-Performance, Runtime Mechanism to Partition Shared Caches — Moinuddin K. Qureshi; Yale N. Patt. • 2023 (for MICRO 2003):
Orion: A Power-Performance Simulator for Interconnection Networks — Hang-Sheng Wang; Xinping Zhu; Li-Shiuan Peh; Sharad Malik. • 2022 (for MICRO 2003):
A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Architectural Vulnerability Factors for a High-Performance Microprocessor — Shubhendu S. Mukherjee; Christopher T. Weaver; Joel S. Emer; Steven K. Reinhardt; Todd M. Austin. • 2022 (for MICRO 2003):
Runtime Power Monitoring in High-End Processors: Methodology and Empirical Data — Canturk Isci; Margaret Martonosi. • 2020 (for MICRO 2000):
A Permutation-Based Page Interleaving Scheme to Reduce Row-Buffer Conflicts and Exploit Data Locality — Zhao Zhang; Zhichun Zhu; Xiaodong Zhang. • 2020 (for MICRO 1999):
Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching — Glenn Reinman; Brad Calder; Todd M. Austin. • 2018 (for MICRO 1999):
DIVA: A Reliable Substrate for Deep Submicron Microarchitecture Design — Todd M. Austin. • 2018 (for MICRO 1996):
Assigning Confidence to Conditional Branch Predictions — Erik Jacobsen; Eric Rotenberg; James E. Smith. • 2015 (for MICRO 1996):
Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching — Eric Rotenberg; Steve Bennett; James E. Smith. ==References==