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IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Static Methods in Hybrid Branch Prediction
Hybrid branch predictors combine the predictions of multiple single-level or two-level branch predictors. The prediction-combining hardware -- the "meta-predictor" -may ...
Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Benjamin G. Zorn
ISCA
1998
IEEE
151views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction
As the issue rate and depth of pipelining of high performance Superscalar processors increase, the importance of an excellent branch predictor becomes more vital to delivering the...
Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
MICRO
1998
IEEE
144views Hardware» more  MICRO 1998»
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
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Branch predictor guided instruction decoding
Fast instruction decoding is a challenge for the design of CISC microprocessors. A well-known solution to overcome this problem is using a trace cache. It stores and fetches alrea...
Oliverio J. Santana, Ayose Falcón, Alex Ram...
PLDI
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Corpus-Based Static Branch Prediction
Correctly predicting the direction that branches will take is increasingly important in today’s wide-issue computer architectures. The name program-based branch prediction is gi...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Jam...