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ISCA
1995
IEEE
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Optimization of Instruction Fetch Mechanisms for High Issue Rates
Recent superscalar processors issue four instructions per cycle. These processors are also powered by highly-parallel superscalar cores. The potential performance can only be expl...
Thomas M. Conte, Kishore N. Menezes, Patrick M. Mi...
ISLPED
2005
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Energy-aware fetch mechanism: trace cache and BTB customization
1 A highly-efficient fetch unit is essential not only to obtain good performance but also to achieve energy efficiency. However, existing designs are inflexible and depending on pr...
Daniel Chaver, Miguel A. Rojas, Luis Piñuel...