SBACPAD
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challe...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
We present a scheme to compress branch trace information for use in snapshot-based microarchitecture simulation. The compressed trace can be used to warm any arbitrary branch pred...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
Computer architects and designers rely heavily on simulation. The downside of simulation is that it is very time-consuming — simulating an industry-standard benchmark on todayâ€...
CSIE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
With the pipeline deepen and issue width widen, the accuracy of branch predictor becomes more and more important to the performance of a microprocessor. State-of-theart researches...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...