MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
In this work we show that value prediction can be used to avoid the penalty of long wire delays by predicting the data that is communicated through these long wires and validating...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Current superscalar microprocessors’ performance depends on its frequency and the number of useful instructions that can be processed per cycle (IPC). In this paper we propose a...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Silent store instructions write values that exactly match the values that are already stored at the memory address that is being written. A recent study reveals that significant ...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Value prediction breaks data dependencies in a program thereby creating instruction level parallelism that can increase program performance. Hardware based value prediction techni...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Virtual machine service threads can perform many tasks in parallel with program execution such as garbage collection, dynamic compilation, and profile collection and analysis. Har...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Many data-parallel applications, including emerging media applications, have regular structures that can easily be expressed as a series of arithmetic kernels operating on data st...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Modern microprocessors employ increasingly complicated branch predictors to achieve instruction fetch bandwidth that is sufficient for wide out-of-order execution cores. While ex...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
The design and implementation of a modern microprocessor creates many reliability challenges. Designers must verify the correctness of large complex systems and construct implemen...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
We investigate instruction distribution methods for quadcluster, dynamically-scheduled superscalar processors. We study a variety of methods with different cost, performance and c...