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MICRO
2000
IEEE
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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
IEEEPACT
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 days ago
Predicting Conditional Branches With Fusion-Based Hybrid Predictors
Researchers have studied hybrid branch predictors that leverage the strengths of multiple stand-alone predictors. The common theme among the proposed techniques is a selection mec...
Gabriel H. Loh, Dana S. Henry
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Analysis of Branch Prediction Via Data Compression
Branch prediction is an important mechanism in modern microprocessor design. The focus of research in this area has been on designing new branch prediction schemes. In contrast, v...
I-Cheng K. Chen, John T. Coffey, Trevor N. Mudge
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...
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 11 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