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LCTRTS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Addressing instruction fetch bottlenecks by using an instruction register file
The Instruction Register File (IRF) is an architectural extension for providing improved access to frequently occurring instructions. An optimizing compiler can exploit an IRF by ...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Wh...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
Thomas M. Conte, Kishore N. Menezes, Patrick M. Mi...
IEEEPACT
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Effect of Program Optimization on Trace Cache Efficiency
Trace cache, an instruction fetch technique that reduces taken branch penalties by storing and fetching program instructions in dynamic execution order, dramatically improves inst...
Derek L. Howard, Mikko H. Lipasti
ISPASS
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Partitioning Multi-Threaded Processors with a Large Number of Threads
Today’s general-purpose processors are increasingly using multithreading in order to better leverage the additional on-chip real estate available with each technology generation...
Ali El-Moursy, Rajeev Garg, David H. Albonesi, San...
ARCS
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
How to Enhance a Superscalar Processor to Provide Hard Real-Time Capable In-Order SMT
This paper describes how a superscalar in-order processor must be modified to support Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) such that time-predictability is preserved for hard real-ti...
Jörg Mische, Irakli Guliashvili, Sascha Uhrig...