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ISCA
1993
IEEE
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A Comparison of Dynamic Branch Predictors that Use Two Levels of Branch History
Recent attention to speculative execution as a mechanism for increasing performance of single instruction streams has demanded substantially better branch prediction than what has...
Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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An Analysis of Correlation and Predictability: What Makes Two-Level Branch Predictors Work
Pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions is one of the most serious problems facing the designer of a deeply pipelined, superscalar processor. Many branch predictors have bee...
Marius Evers, Sanjay J. Patel, Robert S. Chappell,...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction
As the issue rate and depth of pipelining of high performance Superscalar processors increase, the importance of an excellent branch predictor becomes more vital to delivering the...
Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
ISCA
1998
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
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Dynamic History-length Fitting: A Third Level of Adaptivity for Branch Prediction
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
Toni Juan, Sanji Sanjeevan, Juan J. Navarro
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Introducing entropies for representing program behavior and branch predictor performance
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
Takashi Yokota, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takanobu Baba