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ISCA
1998
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Dynamic History-length Fitting: A Third Level of Adaptivity for Branch Prediction
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
Toni Juan, Sanji Sanjeevan, Juan J. Navarro
PATMOS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Area-Aware Pipeline Gating for Embedded Processors
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...
Babak Salamat, Amirali Baniasadi
ISCA
1995
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 11 months ago
Next Cache Line and Set Prediction
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald
APCSAC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Unbiased Branches: An Open Problem
The majority of currently available dynamic branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but...
Arpad Gellert, Adrian Florea, Maria Vintan, Colin ...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
Shrinking transistor sizes and a trend toward low-power processors have caused increased leakage, high per-device variation and a larger number of hard and soft errors. Maintainin...
Renée St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, ...