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CSIE
2009
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Computation Saving Partial-Sum-Global-Update Scheme for Perceptron Branch Predictor
With the pipeline deepen and issue width widen, the accuracy of branch predictor becomes more and more important to the performance of a microprocessor. State-of-theart researches...
Liqiang He
MICRO
2006
IEEE
106views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution
Wish branches, a new class of control-flow instructions, allow the hardware to dynamically decide whether or not to use predicated execution for a dynamic branch instruction. The ...
Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, Jared Stark
ISCA
2005
IEEE
113views Hardware» more  ISCA 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Piecewise Linear Branch Prediction
Improved branch prediction accuracy is essential to sustaining instruction throughput with today’s deep pipelines. We introduce piecewise linear branch prediction, an idealized ...
Daniel A. Jiménez
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Perceptron-Based Branch Confidence Estimation
Pipeline gating has been proposed for reducing wasted speculative execution due to branch mispredictions. As processors become deeper or wider, pipeline gating becomes more import...
Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Rajendar K...
MICRO
1996
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  MICRO 1996»
13 years 9 months ago
Compiler Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction
Branch prediction is the predominant approach for minimizing the pipeline breaks caused by branch instructions. Traditionally, branch prediction is accomplished in one of two ways...
Scott A. Mahlke, Balas K. Natarajan