The processor front-end has become an increasingly important bottleneck in recent years due to growing application code footprints, particularly in data centers. First-level instruction …
Datacenter applications are well-known for their large code footprints. This has caused frontend design to evolve by implementing decoupled fetching and large prediction …
Microarchitecture research relies on performance models with various degrees of accuracy and speed. In the past few years, one such model, ChampSim, has started to gain significant …