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MICRO
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Branch mispredictions can have a major performance impact on high-performance processors. Multipath execution has recently been introduced to help limit the misprediction penaltie...
ICPP
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Conventional instruction fetch mechanisms fetch contiguous blocks of instructions in each cycle. They are difficult to scale since taken branches make it hard to increase the siz...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper proposes a low-energy solution for CAMbased highly associative I-caches using a segmented wordline and a predictor-based instruction fetch mechanism. Not all instructio...
LCTRTS
2009
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
2009
Springer
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 (...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper presents Threaded Multi-Path Execution (TME), which exploits existing hardware on a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processor to speculatively execute multiple paths ...