Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
Hongliang Gao, Yi Ma, Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zho...
Portable, embedded systems place ever-increasing demands on high-performance, low-power microprocessor design. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known techniq...
Wonyoung Kim, Meeta Sharma Gupta, Gu-Yeon Wei, Dav...
The trend towards integrating multiple cores on the same die has accentuated the need for larger on-chip caches. Such large caches are constructed as a multitude of smaller cache ...
Reetuparna Das, Asit K. Mishra, Chrysostomos Nicop...
Cache partitioning and sharing is critical to the effective utilization of multicore processors. However, almost all existing studies have been evaluated by simulation that often ...
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...