Evaluating branch prediction using two-level perceptron table

Proceedings - 14th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 145-148

  Ribas, Luiz Vinicius Marra ^a   De Lara Gonçalves, Ronaldo Augusto ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

BRANCH PREDICTION; INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM; SUPERSCALAR ARCHITECTURES; TWO-LEVEL PERCEPTRON TABLES;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33750221590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2006.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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