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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Simple Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Neural-Class Branch Prediction
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...
Gabriel H. Loh
MICRO
2005
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  MICRO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Wish Branches: Combining Conditional Branching and Predication for Adaptive Predicated Execution
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard-to-predict branches. However, the additional instruction overhead and addition...
Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Jared Stark, Yale N. Patt
APCSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Integrated Partitioning and Scheduling Based Branch Decoupling
Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...
Pramod Ramarao, Akhilesh Tyagi
MICRO
1998
IEEE
144views Hardware» more  MICRO 1998»
13 years 11 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