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The advancement in microprocessors and high speed digital signal processors over the past few years is attributed mainly to parallelism and the integration density of VLSI chips. This meant the integration of complete systems on a single chip with many units functioning in parallel to improve the performance and increase the throughput of the system. Parallel operation of these units requires parallel access to the data stored in memory (RAM). To facilitate such an access to a storage memory, a fast and multi-ported register file is used as a buffer between main memory and the functional units. A major drawback of a multi-ported register file is the increase in area needed to accommodate the extra ports.
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Elrabaa, M.S., Abu-Khater, I.S., Elmasry, M.I. (1997). Low-Power Register File. In: Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 405. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8546-0_4
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