IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures (ISVLSI'06) Fast Configuration of an Energy-Efficient Branch Predictor Karlsruhe, Germany March 02-March 03 ISBN: 0-7695-2533-4
Recent research in the area of Application Specific Instruction- set Processors (ASIPs) has focused on automatic configuration. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for selecting the size of the branch predictor pattern history table (PHT) to reduce the overall power dissipation for a specific application. This approach uses a fast configuration approach that dynamically measures aliasing for all PHT sizes in parallel and then uses a cost function that relates aliasing to power dissipation. Results show that by configuring the PHT using our approach, the overall power reduction closely matches that achievable with a "perfect" configuration.
Citation:
P. Hallschmid, R. Saleh, "Fast Configuration of an Energy-Efficient Branch Predictor," isvlsi, pp.289-294, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI: Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures (ISVLSI'06), 2006 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||