Confidence estimation for branch prediction reversal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2228, Issue , 2001, Pages 214-223

  Aragón, Juan L ^a   González, José ^a   García, José M ^a   González, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

BRANCH MISPREDICTIONS; BRANCH PREDICTION; BRANCH PREDICTORS; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATORS; DATA VALUES; GSHARE PREDICTOR; SUPERSCALAR PROCESSOR;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84947711764     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45307-5_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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