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HPCA
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 days ago
An approach for implementing efficient superscalar CISC processors
An integrated, hardware / software co-designed CISC processor is proposed and analyzed. The objectives are high performance and reduced complexity. Although the x86 ISA is targete...
Shiliang Hu, Ilhyun Kim, Mikko H. Lipasti, James E...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
16 years 5 days ago
A Unified Compressed Memory Hierarchy
The memory system's large and growing contribution to system performance motivates more aggressive approaches to improving its efficiency. We propose and analyze a memory hie...
Erik G. Hallnor, Steven K. Reinhardt
HPCA
2004
IEEE
16 years 5 days ago
Hardware Support for Prescient Instruction Prefetch
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow, Per Hammarlund, Hong Wan...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
16 years 5 days ago
Signature Buffer: Bridging Performance Gap between Registers and Caches
Data communications between producer instructions and consumer instructions through memory incur extra delays that degrade processor performance. In this paper, we introduce a new...
Lu Peng, Jih-Kwon Peir, Konrad Lai
HPCA
2003
IEEE
16 years 5 days ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi