Augmented dice allow players of tabletop games to have the result of a roll be automatically recorded by a computer, e.g., for supporting strategy games. We have built a set of three augmented-dice-prototypes based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, which allows us to build robust, cheap, and small augmented dice. Using a corresponding readout infrastructure and a sample appli...

This document provides a user’s guide for DICE Version 1.0. The emphasis in this user’s guide is on providing detailed specifications for setting up and using the various features in DICE. For a general overview of DICE and descriptions of some of its core features, see Reference [1]. This user’s guide is supplemented by various materials that are available electronically from the DICE User’s G...

DICE is a shared-bus multiprocessor based on a distributed shared-memory architecture, known as cache-only memory architecture (COMA). Unlike previous COMA proposals for large-scale multiprocessing, DICE utilizes COMA to effectively decrease the speed gap between modem high-performance microprocessors and the bus. DICE tries to optimize COMA for a shared-bus medium, in particular to reduce detr...