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MICRO
1996
IEEE
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Compiler Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction
Branch prediction is the predominant approach for minimizing the pipeline breaks caused by branch instructions. Traditionally, branch prediction is accomplished in one of two ways...
Scott A. Mahlke, Balas K. Natarajan
ISLPED
1996
ACM
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Implementation of a micro power 15-bit "floating-point" A/D converter
Micro power A/D converter are required for power sensitive, battery-operated equipment such as hearing aids. This paper overviews the principles of the 15-bit 'Floating point...
L. Grisoni, Alexandre Heubi, Peter Balsiger, Faust...
COMPCON
1996
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Broadband Algorithms with the MicroUnity MediaProcessor
An important objective of the MicroUnity mediaprocessor is to allow the design of systems that replace hardwired functionality with software. One of the key design techniques that...
Curtis Abbott, Henry Massalin, Kevin Peterson, Tom...
MICRO
1996
IEEE
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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
MICRO
1996
IEEE
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Instruction Scheduling and Executable Editing
Modern microprocessors offer more instruction-level parallelism than most programs and compilers can currently exploit. The resulting disparity between a machine's peak and a...
Eric Schnarr, James R. Larus