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APCSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding Prediction Limits Through Unbiased Branches
The majority of currently available branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but they do...
Lucian N. Vintan, Arpad Gellert, Adrian Florea, Ma...
ICCD
2002
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ICCD 2002»
14 years 4 months ago
Branch Predictor Prediction: A Power-Aware Branch Predictor for High-Performance Processors
We introduce Branch Predictor Prediction (BPP) as a power-aware branch prediction technique for high performance processors. Our predictor reduces branch prediction power dissipat...
Amirali Baniasadi, Andreas Moshovos
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Low power/area branch prediction using complementary branch predictors
Although high branch prediction accuracy is necessary for high performance, it typically comes at the cost of larger predictor tables and/or more complex prediction algorithms. Un...
Resit Sendag, Joshua J. Yi, Peng-fei Chuang, David...
CASES
2006
ACM
13 years 11 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
ISCA
1998
IEEE
155views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies
In high-performance computer systems, performance losses due to conditional branch instructions can be minimized by predicting a branch outcome and fetching, decoding, and/or issu...
James E. Smith