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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2003
IEEE
To sustain instruction throughput rates in more aggressively clocked microarchitectures, microarchitects have incorporated larger and more complex branch predictors into their des...
CAL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
1 – In this paper, we propose a new class of branch predictors, complementary branch predictors, which can be easily added to any branch predictor to improve the overall predicti...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
Pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions is one of the most serious problems facing the designer of a deeply pipelined, superscalar processor. Many branch predictors have bee...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Although high branch prediction accuracy is necessary for high performance, it typically comes at the cost of larger predictor tables and/or more complex prediction algorithms. Un...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...