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EXPCS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Introducing entropies for representing program behavior and branch predictor performance
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
Takashi Yokota, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takanobu Baba
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 hour ago
Dynamic Branch Prediction for a VLIW Processor
This paper describes the design of a dynamic branchpredictorfor a VLIW processor. The developed branch predictor predicts the direction of a branch, i.e., taken or not taken, and ...
Jan Hoogerbrugge
CNHPCA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Parallel Branch Prediction on GPU Platform
Abstract. Branch Prediction is a common function in nowadays microprocessor. Branch predictor is duplicated into multiple copies in each core of a multicore and many-core processor...
Liqiang He, Guangyong Zhang
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...
JSA
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic feature selection for hardware prediction
It is often possible to greatly improve the performance of a hardware system via the use of predictive (speculative) techniques. For example, the performance of out-of-order micro...
Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vija...