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MICRO
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
1999
IEEE
Instruction supply is a crucial component of processor performance. Instruction prefetching has been proposed as a mechanism to help reduce instruction cache misses, which in turn...
ISHPC
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2000
Springer
Deeply pipelined high performance processors require highly accurate branch prediction to drive their instruction fetch. However there remains a class of events which are not easi...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2008
IEEE
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Powerful branch predictors along with a large branch target buffer (BTB) are employed in superscalar processors for instruction-level parallelism exploitation. However, the large ...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
2003
IEEE
Single-event upsets from particle strikes have become a key challenge in microprocessor design. Techniques to deal with these transient faults exist, but come at a cost. Designers...