MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Branch mispredictions can have a major performance impact on high-performance processors. Multipath execution has recently been introduced to help limit the misprediction penaltie...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Branch predictors typically use combinations of branch PC bits and branch histories to make predictions. Recent improvements in branch predictors have come from reducing the effec...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Since there is generally insufficient instruction level parallelism within a single basic block, higher performance is achieved by speculatively scheduling operations in superbloc...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper studies an interesting yet less explored behavior of memory access instructions, called access region locality. Unlike the traditional temporal and spatial data localit...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Building a high-performance microprocessor presents many reliability challenges. Designers must verify the correctness of large complex systems and construct implementations that ...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Increasing levels of microprocessor power dissipation call for new approaches at the architectural level that save energy by better matching of on-chip resources to application re...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Recent studies on value locality reveal that many instructions are frequently executed with a small variety of inputs. This paper proposes an approach that integrates architecture...
ITC
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
A new synthesis technique for designing finite state machines with on-line parity checking is presented. The output logic and the next-state logic of the finite state machines are...
ITC
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
