TPDS
1998
13 years 3 months ago
1998
—Instruction fetching is critical to the performance of a superscalar microprocessor. We develop a mathematical model for three different cache techniques and evaluate its perfor...
ISCAPDCS
2001
13 years 5 months ago
2001
The implementation of modern high performance computer is increasingly directed toward parallelism in the hardware. However, most of the current fetch units are limited to one bra...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2000
IEEE
Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) promote software modularity, portability, and flexibility and their use has become widespread. In this paper, we characterize the behavior of f...
SAC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 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...