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MAM
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Clustered indexing for branch predictors
ct 8 As a result of resource limitations, state in branch predictors is frequently shared between uncorrelated branches. This interference 9 can significantly limit prediction acc...
Veerle Desmet, Hans Vandierendonck, Koen De Bossch...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Experiment flows and microbenchmarks for reverse engineering of branch predictor structures
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...
Vladimir Uzelac, Aleksandar Milenkovic
VLSID
2007
IEEE
100views VLSI» more  VLSID 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Hardware Efficient Piecewise Linear Branch Predictor
Piecewise linear branch predictor has been demonstrated to have superior prediction accuracy; however, its huge hardware overhead prevents the predictor from being practical in the...
Jiajin Tu, Jian Chen, Lizy K. John
ISCA
1995
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Next Cache Line and Set Prediction
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald
ISCA
2002
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...