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PATMOS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
2005
Springer
Modern embedded processors use small and simple branch predictors to improve performance. Using complex and accurate branch predictors, while desirable, is not possible as such pre...
HPCA
2001
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2001
IEEE
This paper presents a new method for branch prediction. The key idea is to use one of the simplest possible neural networks, the perceptron as an alternative to the commonly used ...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
2006
IEEE
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...
CASES
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Ever increasing performance requirements have elevated deeply pipelined architectures to a standard even in the embedded processor domain, requiring the incorporation of dynamic b...
SBACPAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
2006
IEEE
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challe...