MICRO Test of Time Award

Past ToT Award Winners

2022

The following two papers were awarded the ninth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2022. These papers were selected from among all the 156 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 2000 and 2004 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
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
MICRO 2003	Runtime Power Monitoring in High-End Processors: Methodology and Empirical Data	Canturk Isci, Margaret Martonosi

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2021

The following two papers were awarded the eighth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2021. These papers were selected from among all the 153 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1999 and 2003 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 2003	Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures: The Potential for Processor Power Reduction	Rakesh Kumar, Keith I. Farkas, Norman P. Jouppi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Dean M. Tullsen
MICRO 2003	Razor: A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation	Dan Ernst, Nam Sung Kim, Shidhartha Das, Sanjay Pant, Rajeev R. Rao, Toan Pham, Conrad H. Ziesler, David T. Blaauw, Todd M. Austin, Krisztián Flautner, Trevor N. Mudge

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2020

The following three papers were awarded the seventh MICRO Test of Time Award in 2020. These papers were selected from among all the 148 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1998 and 2002 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1998	A Dynamic Multithreading Processor	Haitham Akkary, Michael A. Driscoll
MICRO 1999	Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching	Glenn Reinman, Brad Calder, Todd M. Austin
MICRO 2000	A Permutation-Based Page Interleaving Scheme to Reduce Row-Buffer Conflicts and Exploit Data Locality	Zhao Zhang, Zhichun Zhu, Xiaodong Zhang

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2019

The following two papers were awarded the sixth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2019. These papers were selected from among all the 148 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1997 and 2001 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1999	Selective Cache Ways: On-Demand Cache Resource Allocation	David H. Albonesi
MICRO 2001	Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution	Ravi Rajwar, James R. Goodman

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2018

The following three papers were awarded the fifth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2018. These papers were selected from among all the 149 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1996 and 2000 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1996	Efficient Path Profiling	Thomas Ball, James R. Larus
MICRO 1996	Assigning Confidence to Conditional Branch Predictions	Erik Jacobsen, Eric Rotenberg, James E. Smith
MICRO 1999	DIVA: A Reliable Substrate for Deep Submicron Microarchitecture Design	Todd M. Austin

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2017

The following paper was awarded the fourth MICRO Test of Time Award in 2017. This paper was selected from among all the 156 eligible papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1995 and 1999 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1996	Exceeding the Dataflow Limit Via Value Prediction	Mikko H. Lipasti, John Paul Shen

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2016

The following paper was awarded the third MICRO Test of Time Award in 2016. This paper was selected from among all the 156 papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1994 and 1998 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1994	Iterative Modulo Scheduling: An Algorithm for Software Pipelining Loops	B. Ramakrishna Rau

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2015

The following paper was awarded the second MICRO Test of Time Award in 2015. This paper was selected from among all the 156 papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1993 and 1997 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1996	Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching	Eric Rotenberg, Steve Bennett, James E. Smith

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2014

The following are the 10 papers that were awarded the first MICRO Test of Time Award in 2014. These 10 papers were selected from among all the 544 papers published in MICRO conferences that were held between 1968 and 1992 (inclusive).

Conference	Paper Title	Authors
MICRO 1978	Microprogrammed Implementation of A Single Chip Microprocessor	Skip Stritter, Nick Tredennick
MICRO 1981	Some Scheduling Techniques and An Easily Schedulable Horizontal Architecture for High Performance Scientific Computing	B. Ramakrishna Rau, C. D. Glaeser
MICRO 1982	MIPS: A Microprocessor Architecture	John Hennessy, Norman Jouppi, Steven Przybylski, Christopher Rowen, Thomas Gross, Forest Baskett, John Gill
MICRO 1985	Critical Issues Regarding HPS, A High Performance Microarchitecture	Yale N. Patt, Stephen W. Melvin, Wen-mei Hwu, Michael C. Shebanow
MICRO 1985	HPS, A New Microarchitecture: Rationale and Introduction	Yale N. Patt, Wen-mei Hwu, Michael Shebanow
MICRO 1988	Hardware Support for Large Atomic Units in Dynamically Scheduled Machines	Stephen W. Melvin, Michael C. Shebanow, Yale N. Patt
MICRO 1991	Two-Level Adaptive Training Branch Prediction	Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
MICRO 1992	Effective Compiler Support For Predicated Execution Using the Hyperblock	Scott A. Mahlke, David C. Lin, William Y. Chen, Richard E. Hank, Roger A. Bringmann
MICRO 1992	Code Generation Schema for Modulo Scheduled Loops	B. Ramakrishna Rau, Michael S. Schlansker, P. P. Tirumalai
MICRO 1992	Executing Compressed Programs on An Embedded RISC Architecture	Andrew Wolfe, Alex Chanin

Guidelines for the Formation of the MICRO ToT Award Committee

Draft version, based on IEEE TCCA guidelines on HPCA ToT Award Committee formation

• The MICRO ToT Committee chair is appointed by the MICRO SC chair(s). The chairs can delegate the committee formation to the ToT committee chair.
• Members, including the chair, serve up to two 3-year terms (as best as possible).
• The committee should consist of 5–7 members. At least 1 member is recommended to be from the MICRO SC, and at least 2 members should be from outside the MICRO SC.
• At least two members should be from industry.
• The SC chair(s) and the award committee chair should strive for diversity in forming the committee along a number of axes: gender, institutional affiliation, geographic location, age, etc.