Mobile and PC/server class processor companies continue to roll out flagship core
microarchitectures that are faster than their predecessors. Meanwhile placing more cores on …

Microprocessors are designed to provide good general performance across a range of
benchmarks. As such, microarchitectural techniques which provide good speedup for only a …

通过研究处理器动态分支预测器中预测效率与分支历史长度的关系, 针对程序中各分支指令存在
不同最优历史长度的规律, 提出一种搜索各分支指令最佳历史长度的分支预测方法 …

Computer architects have explored techniques for increasing IPC for general applications.
There have been several proposals targeting branch prediction in academia. We intend to …

This thesis effort builds upon the work previously done by our research group on Custom
EXACT Branch Predictor for astar Benchmark. It had demonstrated the potential gains of …

In this paper, we study the relationship between predict accuracy and branch history length
in dynamic branch predictor, and found that different branch instruction will achieve optimal …

Improving single-thread performance still remains an important challenge. Heterogeneous
multi-cores offer the potential of improving single-thread performance by providing a number …