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CF
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2010
ACM
Branches that depend directly or indirectly on load instructions are a leading cause of mispredictions by state-of-the-art branch predictors. For a branch of this type, there is a...
HPCA
2001
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2001
IEEE
This paper presents a new method for branch prediction. The key idea is to use one of the simplest possible neural networks, the perceptron as an alternative to the commonly used ...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1997
IEEE
Deeply pipelined, superscalar processors require accurate branch prediction to achieve high performance. Two-level branch predictors have been shown to achieve high prediction acc...
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ACM
Branch taken rate and transition rate have been proposed as metrics to characterize the branch predictability. However, these two metrics may misclassify branches with regular his...