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ICCD
2002
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
A Framework for Data Prefetching Using Off-Line Training of Markovian Predictors
An important technique for alleviating the memory bottleneck is data prefetching. Data prefetching solutions ranging from pure software approach by inserting prefetch instructions...
Jinwoo Kim, Krishna V. Palem, Weng-Fai Wong
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Branch trace compression for snapshot-based simulation
We present a scheme to compress branch trace information for use in snapshot-based microarchitecture simulation. The compressed trace can be used to warm any arbitrary branch pred...
Kenneth C. Barr, Krste Asanovic
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ISCA
1998
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
15 years 1 months ago
Dynamic History-length Fitting: A Third Level of Adaptivity for Branch Prediction
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
Toni Juan, Sanji Sanjeevan, Juan J. Navarro
SBACPAD
2007
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Predicting Loop Termination to Boost Speculative Thread-Level Parallelism in Embedded Applications
The necessity of devising novel thread-level speculation (TLS) techniques has become extremely important with the growing acceptance of multi-core architectures by the industry. H...
Md. Mafijul Islam
MICRO
2000
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  MICRO 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
Compiler controlled value prediction using branch predictor based confidence
Value prediction breaks data dependencies in a program thereby creating instruction level parallelism that can increase program performance. Hardware based value prediction techni...
Eric Larson, Todd M. Austin