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APCSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Integrated Partitioning and Scheduling Based Branch Decoupling
Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...
Pramod Ramarao, Akhilesh Tyagi
ISCA
1995
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 11 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
Thomas M. Conte, Kishore N. Menezes, Patrick M. Mi...
VLSID
2008
IEEE
111views VLSI» more  VLSID 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Power Reduction of Functional Units Considering Temperature and Process Variations
Continuous technology scaling has resulted in an increase in both, the power density as well as the variation in device dimensions (process variations) of the manufactured process...
Deepa Kannan, Aviral Shrivastava, Sarvesh Bhardwaj...
APCSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Functional Unit Chaining: A Runtime Adaptive Architecture for Reducing Bypass Delays
Abstract. Bypass delays are expected to grow beyond 1ns as technology scales. These delays necessitate pipelining of bypass paths at processor frequencies above 1GHz and thus affe...
Lih Wen Koh, Oliver Diessel
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...