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IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
Using Incorrect Speculation to Prefetch Data in a Concurrent Multithreaded Processor
Concurrent multithreaded architectures exploit both instruction-level and thread-level parallelism through a combination of branch prediction and thread-level control speculation. ...
Ying Chen, Resit Sendag, David J. Lilja
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
PaCo: Probability-based path confidence prediction
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
Kshitiz Malik, Mayank Agarwal, Vikram Dhar, Matthe...
CODES
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
TotalProf: a fast and accurate retargetable source code profiler
Profilers play an important role in software/hardware design, optimization, and verification. Various approaches have been proposed to implement profilers. The most widespread app...
Lei Gao, Jia Huang, Jianjiang Ceng, Rainer Leupers...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
115views Hardware» more  MICRO 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching
Instruction supply is a crucial component of processor performance. Instruction prefetching has been proposed as a mechanism to help reduce instruction cache misses, which in turn...
Glenn Reinman, Brad Calder, Todd M. Austin
ISHPC
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Loop Termination Prediction
Deeply pipelined high performance processors require highly accurate branch prediction to drive their instruction fetch. However there remains a class of events which are not easi...
Timothy Sherwood, Brad Calder