DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
We propose a new variable-sized-block method for VLIW code compression. Code compression traditionally works on fixed-sized blocks and its efficiency is limited by the small block...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes the design of a dynamic branchpredictorfor a VLIW processor. The developed branch predictor predicts the direction of a branch, i.e., taken or not taken, and ...
SAC
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2006
ACM
Modern embedded processors access the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) every cycle to speculate branch target addresses. Such accesses, quite often, are unnecessary as there is no branc...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...