ARM ISA-based processors are no longer low-cost low-power processors. Nowadays ARM ISA based processor manufacturers are struggling to implement medium-end to high-end processor cores, and this implies implementing a state-of-the-art out-of-order execution engine. Unfortunately providing efficient out-of-order execution on legacy ARM codes may be quite challenging due to predicated instructions. In this paper, we propose a new hardware solution, Selective Prediction and REplay for Predicated Instructions (SPREPI), to provide efficient out-of-order execution of codes featuring predicated instructions. Predicting the predicated instructions addresses the so-called multiple definition problem. Predicated instructions are predicted using either...
One of the key factors determining computer performance is the degree to which the implementation ca...
The time-predictable design of computer architectures for the use in (hard) real-time systems is bec...
A sequence of branch instructions in the dynamic instruction stream forms a branch sequence if at mo...
ARM ISA-based processors are no longer low-cost low-power processors. Nowadays ARM ISA based process...
Computers are everywhere and the need for always more computation power has pushed the processor arc...
ARM ISA based processors are no longer low-cost low-power processors. Nowadays ARM ISA based process...
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-pre...
Although currently available general purpose microprocessors feature more than 10 cores, many progra...
ISA extensions are a very powerful approach to implement new hardware techniques that require or ben...
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branc...
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard...
Dependencies between instructions restrict the instruction-level parallelism, and make difficult for...
Conventional speculative architectures use branch prediction to evaluate the most likely execution p...
textEven after decades of research in branch prediction, branch predictors still remain imperfect, w...
A fait l'objet d'une publication au "International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2014" L...
One of the key factors determining computer performance is the degree to which the implementation ca...
The time-predictable design of computer architectures for the use in (hard) real-time systems is bec...
A sequence of branch instructions in the dynamic instruction stream forms a branch sequence if at mo...
ARM ISA-based processors are no longer low-cost low-power processors. Nowadays ARM ISA based process...
Computers are everywhere and the need for always more computation power has pushed the processor arc...
ARM ISA based processors are no longer low-cost low-power processors. Nowadays ARM ISA based process...
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-pre...
Although currently available general purpose microprocessors feature more than 10 cores, many progra...
ISA extensions are a very powerful approach to implement new hardware techniques that require or ben...
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branc...
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard...
Dependencies between instructions restrict the instruction-level parallelism, and make difficult for...
Conventional speculative architectures use branch prediction to evaluate the most likely execution p...
textEven after decades of research in branch prediction, branch predictors still remain imperfect, w...
A fait l'objet d'une publication au "International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2014" L...
One of the key factors determining computer performance is the degree to which the implementation ca...
The time-predictable design of computer architectures for the use in (hard) real-time systems is bec...
A sequence of branch instructions in the dynamic instruction stream forms a branch sequence if at mo...