Deeply pipelined, superscalar processors require accurate branch prediction to achieve high performance. Two-level branch predictors have been shown to achieve high prediction acc...
Eric Sprangle, Robert S. Chappell, Mitch Alsup, Ya...
Hybrid branch predictors combine the predictions of multiple single-level or two-level branch predictors. The prediction-combining hardware -- the "meta-predictor" -may ...
Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Benjamin G. Zorn