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ISHPC
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Simple Low-Energy Instruction Wakeup Mechanism
Instruction issue consumes a large amount of energy in out of order processors, largely in the wakeup logic. Proposed solutions to the problem require prediction or additional hard...
Marco A. Ramírez, Adrián Cristal, Al...
MICRO
1994
IEEE
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14 years 27 days ago
The effects of predicated execution on branch prediction
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branch operations. Microprocessor designs are going to have to deal with this proble...
Gary S. Tyson
ISHPC
2000
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Loop Termination Prediction
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...
Timothy Sherwood, Brad Calder
ISCA
1998
IEEE
137views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
Accurate Indirect Branch Prediction
Indirect branch prediction is likely to become increasingly important in the future because indirect branches occur more frequently in object-oriented programs. With misprediction ...
Karel Driesen, Urs Hölzle
CASES
2006
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
Power efficient branch prediction through early identification of branch addresses
Ever increasing performance requirements have elevated deeply pipelined architectures to a standard even in the embedded processor domain, requiring the incorporation of dynamic b...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu