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ISCA
1997
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
The Agree Predictor: A Mechanism for Reducing Negative Branch History Interference
Deeply pipelined, superscalar processors require accurate branch prediction to achieve high performance. Two-level branch predictors have been shown to achieve high prediction acc...
Eric Sprangle, Robert S. Chappell, Mitch Alsup, Ya...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
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
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Computational and storage power optimizations for the O-GEHL branch predictor
In recent years, highly accurate branch predictors have been proposed primarily for high performance processors. Unfortunately such predictors are extremely energy consuming and i...
Kaveh Aasaraai, Amirali Baniasadi, Ehsan Atoofian
ISCA
1998
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
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,...
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
13 years 3 months ago
Creating artificial global history to improve branch prediction accuracy
Modern processors require highly accurate branch prediction for good performance. As such, a number of branch predictors have been proposed with varying size and complexity. This ...
Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen