Branch predictor (BP) is an essential component in modern processors since high BP
accuracy can improve performance and reduce energy by decreasing the number of …

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the ways that
software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones …

Past research has proposed numerous hardware prefetching techniques, most of which rely
on exploiting one specific type of program context information (eg, program counter …

This paper considers how fluent language users are rational in their language processing,
their unconscious language representation systems optimally prepared for comprehension …

Computer architects employ a series of performance optimizations at the micro-architecture
level. These optimizations are meant to be invisible to the programmer but they are implicitly …

Can machine learning (ML) be used to improve on existing cache replacement strategies?
We propose a general framework called LeCaR that uses the ML technique of regret …

It is now widely admitted that in order to provide state-of-the-art accuracy, a conditional
branch predictor must combine several predictions. Recent research has shown that an …

Processor architects have a challenging task of evaluating a large design space consisting
of several interacting parameters and optimizations. In order to assist architects in making …

Microarchitectural prediction based on neural learning has received increasing attention in
recent years. However, neural prediction remains impractical because its superior accuracy …

Long-latency load requests continue to limit the performance of modern high-performance
processors. To increase the latency tolerance of a processor, architects have primarily relied …