Institutional Login
Welcome!
To use the personalized features of this site, please
log in
or
register
.
If you have forgotten your username or password, we can
help
.
My Menu
Marked Items
Alerts
Order History
Saved Items
All
Favorites
Content Types
All
Publications
Journals
Book Series
Books
Reference Works
Protocols
Subject Collections
Architecture and Design
Behavioral Science
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Business and Economics
Chemistry and Materials Science
Computer Science
Earth and Environmental Science
Engineering
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Mathematics and Statistics
Medicine
Physics and Astronomy
Professional and Applied Computing
中文(简体)
中文(繁體)
English
Deutsch
한국어
日本語
Français
Español
العربية
Русский
Book Chapter
Cost-Efficient Branch Target Buffers
Book Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN
0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
Volume
Volume 1900/2000
Book
Euro-Par 2000 Parallel Processing
DOI
10.1007/3-540-44520-X
Copyright
2000
ISBN
978-3-540-67956-1
DOI
10.1007/3-540-44520-X_134
Pages
950-959
Subject Collection
Computer Science
SpringerLink Date
Saturday, January 01, 2000
Add to marked items
Add to shopping cart
Add to saved items
Permissions & Reprints
Recommend this chapter
PDF (192.7 KB)
Free Preview
Cost-Efficient Branch Target Buffers
Jan Hoogerbrugge
5
(5)
Philips Research Laboratories, Prof. Holstlaan 4, 5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Abstract
Branch target buffers (BTBs) are caches in which branch information is stored that is used for branch prediction by the fetch stage of the instruction pipeline. A typical BTB requires a few kbyte of storage which makes it rather large and, because it is accessed every cycle, rather power consuming. Partial resolution has in the past been proposed to reduce the size of a BTB. A partial resolution BTB stores not all tag bits that would be required to do an exact lookup. The result is a smaller BTB at the price of slightly less accurate branch prediction. This paper proposes to make use of branch locality to reduce the size of a BTB. Short-distance branches need fewer BTB bits than long-distance branches that are less frequent. Two BTB organisations are presented that use branch locality. Simulation results are given that demonstrate the effectiveness of the described techniques.
Jan
Hoogerbrugge
Email:
jan.hoogerbrugge@philips.com
Fulltext Preview (Small,
Large
)
References secured to subscribers.
more options
Find
Query Builder
Close
|
Clear
Title (ti)
Summary (su)
Author (au)
ISSN (issn)
ISBN (isbn)
DOI (doi)
And
Or
Not
(
)
* (wildcard)
"" (exact)
Within all content
Within this book series
Within this book
Export this chapter
Export this chapter as
RIS
|
Text
Frequently asked questions
|
General information on journals and books
|
Send us your feedback
|
Impressum
|
Contact
© Springer.
Part of Springer Science+Business Media
Privacy, Disclaimer, Terms and Conditions, © Copyright Information
MetaPress Privacy Policy
Remote Address: 38.107.191.109 • Server: mpweb18
HTTP User Agent: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)