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MICRO
1996
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Trace Cache: A Low Latency Approach to High Bandwidth Instruction Fetching
As the issue widthof superscalar processors is increased, instructionfetch bandwidthrequirements will also increase. It will become necessary to fetch multiple basic blocks per cy...
Eric Rotenberg, Steve Bennett, James E. Smith
ICS
2004
Tsinghua U.
14 years 26 days ago
Scaling the issue window with look-ahead latency prediction
In contemporary out-of-order superscalar design, high IPC is mainly achieved by exposing high instruction level parallelism (ILP). Scaling issue window size can certainly provide ...
Yongxiang Liu, Anahita Shayesteh, Gokhan Memik, Gl...
LCPC
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Branch Strategies to Optimize Decision Trees for Wide-Issue Architectures
Abstract. Branch predictors are associated with critical design issues for nowadays instruction greedy processors. We study two important domains where the optimization of decision...
Patrick Carribault, Christophe Lemuet, Jean-Thomas...
MICRO
1995
IEEE
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Improving CISC instruction decoding performance using a fill unit
Current superscalar processors, both RISC and CISC, require substantial instruction fetch and decode bandwidth to keep multiple functional units utilized. While CISC instructions ...
Mark Smotherman, Manoj Franklin
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Simultaneous Multithreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism
This paper examines simultaneous multithreading, a technique permitting several independent threads to issue instructions to a superscalar's multiple functional units in a si...
Dean M. Tullsen, Susan J. Eggers, Henry M. Levy