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ISCA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
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,...
SBACPAD
2006
IEEE
147views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Controlling the Power and Area of Neural Branch Predictors for Practical Implementation in High-Performance Processors
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challe...
Daniel A. Jiménez, Gabriel H. Loh
JILP
2000
90views more  JILP 2000»
13 years 5 months ago
Speculative Updates of Local and Global Branch History: A Quantitative Analysis
In today's wide-issue processors, even small branch-misprediction rates introduce substantial performance penalties. Worse yet, inadequate branch prediction creates a bottlen...
Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clar...
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
196views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
Autocorrelation analysis: a new and improved method for measuring branch predictability
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...
Jian Chen, Lizy Kurian John
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Accurate branch prediction for short threads
Multi-core processors, with low communication costs and high availability of execution cores, will increase the use of execution and compilation models that use short threads to e...
Bumyong Choi, Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen