Extending correlation in branch prediction schemes

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 441-448

  Vintan, Lucian N ^a   Egan, Colin ^b  

^a LUCIAN BLAGA UNIVERSITY OF SIBIU   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branch prediction; Trace driven simulation; Two Level Adaptive Branch Prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

BRANCH PREDICTION; HARDWARE COMPLEXITY; LIMITED INFORMATION; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; TWO-LEVEL PREDICTOR;

FORECASTING;

EID: 0009014261     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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