Pushing the branch predictability limits with the multi-poTAGE+SC predictor

International audienceThis paper describes the conditional branch predictor that the authors submitted to the unlimited-size track of the 4th Championship Branch Prediction. The multi-poTAGE+SC predictor which we submit combines the multi-poTAGE and TAGE-SC predictors that were submitted separately to CBP-4 by the first and second authors respectively. Both multi-poTAGE and TAGE-SC are based on the TAGE predictor. We combine them by replacing the TAGE component in TAGE-SC with the multi-poTAGE