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APCSAC
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Understanding Prediction Limits Through Unbiased Branches
The majority of currently available branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but they do...
Lucian N. Vintan, Arpad Gellert, Adrian Florea, Ma...
ICCD
2002
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ICCD 2002»
15 years 8 months ago
Branch Predictor Prediction: A Power-Aware Branch Predictor for High-Performance Processors
We introduce Branch Predictor Prediction (BPP) as a power-aware branch prediction technique for high performance processors. Our predictor reduces branch prediction power dissipat...
Amirali Baniasadi, Andreas Moshovos
IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Low power/area branch prediction using complementary branch predictors
Although high branch prediction accuracy is necessary for high performance, it typically comes at the cost of larger predictor tables and/or more complex prediction algorithms. Un...
Resit Sendag, Joshua J. Yi, Peng-fei Chuang, David...
CASES
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Power efficient branch prediction through early identification of branch addresses
Ever increasing performance requirements have elevated deeply pipelined architectures to a standard even in the embedded processor domain, requiring the incorporation of dynamic b...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu
ISCA
1998
IEEE
155views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
15 years 4 months ago
A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies
In high-performance computer systems, performance losses due to conditional branch instructions can be minimized by predicting a branch outcome and fetching, decoding, and/or issu...
James E. Smith