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MICRO
1998
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Analyzing the Working Set Characteristics of Branch Execution
To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch exe...
Sangwook P. Kim, Gary S. Tyson
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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14 years 2 days 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
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Dynamic Branch Prediction for a VLIW Processor
This paper describes the design of a dynamic branchpredictorfor a VLIW processor. The developed branch predictor predicts the direction of a branch, i.e., taken or not taken, and ...
Jan Hoogerbrugge
DSN
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Augmenting Branch Predictor to Secure Program Execution
Although there are various ways to exploit software vulnerabilities for malicious attacks, the attacks always result in unexpected behavior in program execution, deviating from wh...
Yixin Shi, Gyungho Lee
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Multi-stage Cascaded Prediction
Two-level predictors deliver highly accurate conditional branch prediction, indirect branch target prediction and value prediction. Accurate prediction enables speculative executio...
Karel Driesen, Urs Hölzle