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1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
The PowerPC 620TM microprocessor1 is the most recent and performance leading member of the PowerPCTM family. The 64-bit PowerPC 620 microprocessor employs a two-phase branch predi...
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1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
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ISCA
1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
170
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1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
For many programs, especially integer codes, untolerated load instruction latencies account for a significant portion of total execution time. In this paper, we present the desig...
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1995
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
Speculative execution is execution of instructions before it is known whether these instructions should be executed. Compiler-based speculative execution has the potential to achi...