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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
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Very low power pipelines using significance compression
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...
Ramon Canal, Antonio González, James E. Smi...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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Efficient checker processor design
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....
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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The impact of delay on the design of branch predictors
Modern microprocessors employ increasingly complicated branch predictors to achieve instruction fetch bandwidth that is sufficient for wide out-of-order execution cores. While ex...
Daniel A. Jiménez, Stephen W. Keckler, Calv...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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Silent stores for free
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 ...
Kevin M. Lepak, Mikko H. Lipasti