MAM
2002
13 years 10 months ago
2002
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors. Though many dynamic branch predictors have been proposed to obtain high...
CAL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
1 – In this paper, we propose a new class of branch predictors, complementary branch predictors, which can be easily added to any branch predictor to improve the overall predicti...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
2008
ACM
Multi-core processors, with low communication costs and high availability of execution cores, will increase the use of execution and compilation models that use short threads to e...
EXPCS
2007
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Instruction supply is a crucial component of processor performance. Instruction prefetching has been proposed as a mechanism to help reduce instruction cache misses, which in turn...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2000
IEEE
Modern microprocessors employ increasingly complicated branch predictors to achieve instruction fetch bandwidth that is sufficient for wide out-of-order execution cores. While ex...
ISHPC
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) tolerates latency by executing instructions from multiple threads. If a thread is stalled, resources can be used by other threads. Howev...
ISPASS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Abstract— This paper proposes to speedup sampled microprocessor simulations by reducing warmup times without sacrificing simulation accuracy. It exploiting the observation that ...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
Improved branch prediction accuracy is essential to sustaining instruction throughput with today’s deep pipelines. We introduce piecewise linear branch prediction, an idealized ...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...