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HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 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...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Simple Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Neural-Class Branch Prediction
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...
Gabriel H. Loh
ISLPED
2004
ACM
108views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2004»
14 years 28 days ago
SEPAS: a highly accurate energy-efficient branch predictor
Designers have invested much effort in developing accurate branch predictors with short learning periods. Such techniques rely on exploiting complex and relatively large structure...
Amirali Baniasadi, Andreas Moshovos
ISCA
1993
IEEE
113views Hardware» more  ISCA 1993»
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Dynamic Branch Predictors that Use Two Levels of Branch History
Recent attention to speculative execution as a mechanism for increasing performance of single instruction streams has demanded substantially better branch prediction than what has...
Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
MICRO
2002
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  MICRO 2002»
14 years 12 days ago
Characterizing and predicting value degree of use
A value’s degree of use—the number of dynamic uses of that value—provides the most essential information needed to optimize its communication. We present simulation results ...
J. Adam Butts, Gurindar S. Sohi