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MICRO
2000
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Compiler controlled value prediction using branch predictor based confidence
Value prediction breaks data dependencies in a program thereby creating instruction level parallelism that can increase program performance. Hardware based value prediction techni...
Eric Larson, Todd M. Austin
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Accurate branch prediction for short threads
Multi-core processors, with low communication costs and high availability of execution cores, will increase the use of execution and compilation models that use short threads to e...
Bumyong Choi, Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen
MICRO
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
Shrinking transistor sizes and a trend toward low-power processors have caused increased leakage, high per-device variation and a larger number of hard and soft errors. Maintainin...
Renée St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, ...
ISCA
2002
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
14 years 12 days ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...
JILP
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Speculative Updates of Local and Global Branch History: A Quantitative Analysis
In today's wide-issue processors, even small branch-misprediction rates introduce substantial performance penalties. Worse yet, inadequate branch prediction creates a bottlen...
Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clar...