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MICRO
1994
IEEE
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Characterizing the impact of predicated execution on branch prediction
Branch instructions are recognized as a major impediment to exploiting instruction level parallelism. Even with sophisticated branch prediction techniques, many frequently execute...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, Roger A. Bringma...
EURODAC
1994
IEEE
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Generating compilers for generated datapaths
Modern CAD systems allow the designers to come up with powerful programmable datapaths in avery short time. The time to develop compilers for this datapaths is much longer. This p...
Michael Held, Manfred Glesner
MICRO
1994
IEEE
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A high-performance microarchitecture with hardware-programmable functional units
This paper explores a novel way to incorporate hardware-programmable resources into a processor microarchitecture to improve the performance of general-purpose applications. Throu...
Rahul Razdan, Michael D. Smith
MICRO
1994
IEEE
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The effects of predicated execution on branch prediction
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branch operations. Microprocessor designs are going to have to deal with this proble...
Gary S. Tyson
MICRO
1994
IEEE
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A fill-unit approach to multiple instruction issue
Multiple issue of instructions occurs in superscalar and VLIW machines. This paper investigates a third type of machine design, which combines the advantages of code compatibility...
Manoj Franklin, Mark Smotherman