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ASPDAC
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Powerful branch predictors along with a large branch target buffer (BTB) are employed in superscalar processors for instruction-level parallelism exploitation. However, the large ...
VLSID
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Power consumption is becoming an increasingly important constraint in the design of microprocessors. This paper examines the use of multiple constrained processors running at lowe...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Hardware acceleration is crucial in modern embedded system design to meet the explosive demands on performance and cost. Selected computation kernels for acceleration are usually ...