Current trends in processor design are pointing to deeper and wider pipelines and superscalar architectures. The efficient use of these resources requires speculative execution, ...
Dennis Lee, Jean-Loup Baer, Brad Calder, Dirk Grun...
Abstract. Branch predictors are associated with critical design issues for nowadays instruction greedy processors. We study two important domains where the optimization of decision...
Patrick Carribault, Christophe Lemuet, Jean-Thomas...
In order to achieve high performance, contemporary microprocessors must effectively process the four major instruction types: ALU, branch, load, and store instructions. This paper...
Bryan Black, Brian Mueller, Stephanie Postal, Ryan...
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
Current work in Simultaneous Multithreading provides little benefit to programs that aren't partitioned into threads. We propose Simultaneous Subordinate Microthreading (SSMT...
Robert S. Chappell, Jared Stark, Sangwook P. Kim, ...