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IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Branch predictor guided instruction decoding
Fast instruction decoding is a challenge for the design of CISC microprocessors. A well-known solution to overcome this problem is using a trace cache. It stores and fetches alrea...
Oliverio J. Santana, Ayose Falcón, Alex Ram...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  MICRO 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
Characterizing and predicting value degree of use
A value’s degree of use—the number of dynamic uses of that value—provides the most essential information needed to optimize its communication. We present simulation results ...
J. Adam Butts, Gurindar S. Sohi
LCTRTS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Guaranteeing instruction fetch behavior with a lookahead instruction fetch engine (LIFE)
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin,...
ISCA
1999
IEEE
88views Hardware» more  ISCA 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
A Scalable Front-End Architecture for Fast Instruction Delivery
In the pursuit of instruction-level parallelism, significant demands are placed on a processor's instruction delivery mechanism. Delivering the performance necessary to meet ...
Glenn Reinman, Todd M. Austin, Brad Calder