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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
P. Hallschmid, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
R. Saleh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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
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