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ICPP
2002
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Out-of-Order Instruction Fetch Using Multiple Sequencers
Conventional instruction fetch mechanisms fetch contiguous blocks of instructions in each cycle. They are difficult to scale since taken branches make it hard to increase the siz...
Paramjit S. Oberoi, Gurindar S. Sohi
MICRO
1996
IEEE
129views Hardware» more  MICRO 1996»
13 years 11 months ago
Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching
As the issue widthof superscalar processors is increased, instructionfetch bandwidthrequirements will also increase. It will become necessary to fetch multiple basic blocks per cy...
Eric Rotenberg, Steve Bennett, James E. Smith
ISCAPDCS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
A Multiple Blocks Fetch Engine for High Performance Superscalar Processors
The implementation of modern high performance computer is increasingly directed toward parallelism in the hardware. However, most of the current fetch units are limited to one bra...
Yung-Chung Wu, Jong-Jiann Shieh
ISCA
1996
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1996»
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Choice: Instruction Fetch and Issue on an Implementable Simultaneous Multithreading Processor
Simultaneous multithreading is a technique that permits multiple independent threads to issue multiple instructions each cycle. In previous work we demonstrated the performance po...
Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers, Joel S. Emer, He...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ISCA 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Superscalar Instruction Dispatch and Issue by Exploiting Dynamic Code Sequences
Superscalar processors currently have the potential to fetch multiple basic blocks per cycle by employing one of several recently proposed instruction fetch mechanisms. However, t...
Sriram Vajapeyam, Tulika Mitra