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CAL
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Implementing Decay Techniques using 4T Quasi-Static Memory Cells
Abstract-This paper proposes the use of four-transistor (4T) cache and branch predictor array cell designs to address increasing worries regarding leakage power dissipation. While ...
Philo Juang, Phil Diodato, Stefanos Kaxiras, Kevin...
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...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Power-Aware Control Speculation through Selective Throttling
With the constant advances in technology that lead to the increasing of the transistor count and processor frequency, power dissipation is becoming one of the major issues in high...
Juan L. Aragón, José González...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
PaCo: Probability-based path confidence prediction
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
Kshitiz Malik, Mayank Agarwal, Vikram Dhar, Matthe...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Perceptron-Based Branch Confidence Estimation
Pipeline gating has been proposed for reducing wasted speculative execution due to branch mispredictions. As processors become deeper or wider, pipeline gating becomes more import...
Haitham Akkary, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Rajendar K...