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CF
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive VP decay: making value predictors leakage-efficient designs for high performance processors
Energy-efficient microprocessor designs are one of the major concerns in both high performance and embedded processor domains. Furthermore, as process technology advances toward d...
Juan M. Cebrian, Juan L. Aragón, José...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
98views Hardware» more  ISCA 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Target Prediction for Indirect Jumps
As the issue rate and pipeline depth of high performance superscalar processors increase, the amount of speculative work issued also increases. Because speculative work must be th...
Po-Yung Chang, Eric Hao, Yale N. Patt
EUROPAR
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Multi-stage Cascaded Prediction
Two-level predictors deliver highly accurate conditional branch prediction, indirect branch target prediction and value prediction. Accurate prediction enables speculative executio...
Karel Driesen, Urs Hölzle
MICRO
1998
IEEE
144views Hardware» more  MICRO 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Analyzing the Working Set Characteristics of Branch Execution
To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch exe...
Sangwook P. Kim, Gary S. Tyson
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
PaCo: Probability-based path confidence prediction
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
Kshitiz Malik, Mayank Agarwal, Vikram Dhar, Matthe...