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VLSID
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2005
IEEE
Improved branch prediction accuracy is essential to sustaining instruction throughput with today’s deep pipelines. We introduce piecewise linear branch prediction, an idealized ...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
To sustain instruction throughput rates in more aggressively clocked microarchitectures, microarchitects have incorporated larger and more complex branch predictors into their des...
ISLPED
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Designers have invested much effort in developing accurate branch predictors with short learning periods. Such techniques rely on exploiting complex and relatively large structure...
JSA
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
It is often possible to greatly improve the performance of a hardware system via the use of predictive (speculative) techniques. For example, the performance of out-of-order micro...