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2009
Tsinghua U.
13 years 5 months ago
Creating artificial global history to improve branch prediction accuracy
Modern processors require highly accurate branch prediction for good performance. As such, a number of branch predictors have been proposed with varying size and complexity. This ...
Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen
ICCD
2002
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Branch Predictor Prediction: A Power-Aware Branch Predictor for High-Performance Processors
We introduce Branch Predictor Prediction (BPP) as a power-aware branch prediction technique for high performance processors. Our predictor reduces branch prediction power dissipat...
Amirali Baniasadi, Andreas Moshovos
MICRO
1999
IEEE
123views Hardware» more  MICRO 1999»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Branch Predictors by Correlating on Data Values
Branch predictors typically use combinations of branch PC bits and branch histories to make predictions. Recent improvements in branch predictors have come from reducing the effec...
Timothy H. Heil, Zak Smith, James E. Smith
SBACPAD
2006
IEEE
147views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Controlling the Power and Area of Neural Branch Predictors for Practical Implementation in High-Performance Processors
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challe...
Daniel A. Jiménez, Gabriel H. Loh
ISCA
1998
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 11 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