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CF
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
EXACT: explicit dynamic-branch prediction with active updates
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...
Muawya Al-Otoom, Elliott Forbes, Eric Rotenberg
CASES
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Power efficient branch prediction through early identification of branch addresses
Ever increasing performance requirements have elevated deeply pipelined architectures to a standard even in the embedded processor domain, requiring the incorporation of dynamic b...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-stage Cascaded Prediction
Two-level predictors deliver highly accurate conditional branch prediction, indirect branch target prediction and value prediction. Accurate prediction enables speculative executio...
Karel Driesen, Urs Hölzle
CGO
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Evaluating Indirect Branch Handling Mechanisms in Software Dynamic Translation Systems
Software Dynamic Translation (SDT) systems are used for program instrumentation, dynamic optimization, security, intrusion detection, and many other uses. As noted by many researc...
Jason Hiser, Daniel Williams, Wei Hu, Jack W. Davi...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi