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2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Power efficient branch prediction through early identification of branch addresses
Ever increasing performance requirements have elevated deeply pipelined architectures to a standard even in the embedded processor domain, requiring the incorporation of dynamic b...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu
MICRO
1998
IEEE
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13 years 11 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
ISCA
1997
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A Language for Describing Predictors and Its Application to Automatic Synthesis
As processor architectures have increased their reliance on speculative execution to improve performance, the importance of accurate prediction of what to execute speculatively ha...
Joel S. Emer, Nicholas C. Gloy
ATC
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Concepts for Autonomous Control Flow Checking for Embedded CPUs
In this paper, we introduce new concepts and methods for checking the correctness of control flow instructions during the execution of programs in embedded CPUs. Detecting and avoi...
Daniel Ziener, Jürgen Teich
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Address-branch correlation: A novel locality for long-latency hard-to-predict branches
Hard-to-predict branches depending on longlatency cache-misses have been recognized as a major performance obstacle for modern microprocessors. With the widening speed gap between...
Hongliang Gao, Yi Ma, Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zho...