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MAM
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Clustered indexing for branch predictors
ct 8 As a result of resource limitations, state in branch predictors is frequently shared between uncorrelated branches. This interference 9 can significantly limit prediction acc...
Veerle Desmet, Hans Vandierendonck, Koen De Bossch...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Experiment flows and microbenchmarks for reverse engineering of branch predictor structures
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...
Vladimir Uzelac, Aleksandar Milenkovic
VLSID
2007
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Hardware Efficient Piecewise Linear Branch Predictor
Piecewise linear branch predictor has been demonstrated to have superior prediction accuracy; however, its huge hardware overhead prevents the predictor from being practical in the...
Jiajin Tu, Jian Chen, Lizy K. John
ISCA
1995
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
15 years 1 months ago
Next Cache Line and Set Prediction
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...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald
ISCA
2002
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
15 years 2 months ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...