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ISCAPDCS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
A Multiple Blocks Fetch Engine for High Performance Superscalar Processors
The implementation of modern high performance computer is increasingly directed toward parallelism in the hardware. However, most of the current fetch units are limited to one bra...
Yung-Chung Wu, Jong-Jiann Shieh
MICRO
1996
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching
As the issue widthof superscalar processors is increased, instructionfetch bandwidthrequirements will also increase. It will become necessary to fetch multiple basic blocks per cy...
Eric Rotenberg, Steve Bennett, James E. Smith
ISCA
1997
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ISCA 1997»
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Superscalar Instruction Dispatch and Issue by Exploiting Dynamic Code Sequences
Superscalar processors currently have the potential to fetch multiple basic blocks per cycle by employing one of several recently proposed instruction fetch mechanisms. However, t...
Sriram Vajapeyam, Tulika Mitra
ACMMSP
2004
ACM
125views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Improving trace cache hit rates using the sliding window fill mechanism and fill select table
As superscalar processors become increasingly wide, it is inevitable that the large set of instructions to be fetched every cycle will span multiple noncontiguous basic blocks. Th...
Muhammad Shaaban, Edward Mulrane
ISCA
1995
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
Thomas M. Conte, Kishore N. Menezes, Patrick M. Mi...