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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Incorporating Predicate Information into Branch Predictors
Predicated Execution can be used to alleviate the costs associated with frequently mispredicted branches. This is accomplished by trading the cost of a mispredicted branch for exe...
Beth Simon, Brad Calder, Jeanne Ferrante
ISCA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
121views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparative Analysis of Schemes for Correlated Branch Prediction
Modern high-performance architectures require extremely accurate branch prediction to overcome the performance limitations of conditional branches. We present a framework that cat...
Cliff Young, Nicholas C. Gloy, Michael D. Smith
ISCA
1997
IEEE
78views Hardware» more  ISCA 1997»
13 years 9 months ago
Trading Conflict and Capacity Aliasing in Conditional Branch Predictors
As modern microprocessors employ deeper pipelines and issue multiple instructions per cycle, they are becoming increasingly dependent on accurate branch prediction. Because hardwa...
Pierre Michaud, André Seznec, Richard Uhlig
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi