Value prediction breaks data dependencies in a program thereby creating instruction level parallelism that can increase program performance. Hardware based value prediction techni...
Data, addresses, and instructions are compressed by maintaining only significant bytes with two or three extension bits appended to indicate the significant byte positions. This s...
The design and implementation of a modern microprocessor creates many reliability challenges. Designers must verify the correctness of large complex systems and construct implemen...
Saugata Chatterjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Todd M....
Modern microprocessors employ increasingly complicated branch predictors to achieve instruction fetch bandwidth that is sufficient for wide out-of-order execution cores. While ex...
Silent store instructions write values that exactly match the values that are already stored at the memory address that is being written. A recent study reveals that significant ...