Diverge-Merge Processor: Generalized and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Predication

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January/February 2007 (vol. 27 no. 1)

pp. 94-104

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	Hyesoon Kim, Jos? A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, "Diverge-Merge Processor: Generalized and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Predication," IEEE Micro, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 94-104, January/February, 2007.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MM.2007.9, author = {Hyesoon Kim and Jos? A. Joao and Onur Mutlu and Yale N. Patt}, title = {Diverge-Merge Processor: Generalized and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Predication}, journal ={IEEE Micro}, volume = {27}, number = {1}, issn = {0272-1732}, year = {2007}, pages = {94-104}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2007.9}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Micro TI - Diverge-Merge Processor: Generalized and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Predication IS - 1 SN - 0272-1732 SP94 EP104 EPD - 94-104 A1 - Hyesoon Kim, A1 - Jos? A. Joao, A1 - Onur Mutlu, A1 - Yale N. Patt, PY - 2007 KW - predication KW - dynamic predication KW - branch prediction KW - adaptivity KW - pipelining KW - instruction level parallelism KW - energy efficiency VL - 27 JA - IEEE Micro ER -

Hyesoon Kim, University of Texas at Austin

Jos? A. Joao, University of Texas at Austin

Onur Mutlu, Microsoft Research

Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2007.9

The branch misprediction penalty is a major performance limiter and a major cause of wasted energy in high-performance processors. The diverge-merge processor reduces this penalty by dynamically predicating a wide range of hard-to-predict branches at runtime in an energy-efficient way that doesn't significantly increase hardware complexity or require major ISA changes.

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predication, dynamic predication, branch prediction, adaptivity, pipelining, instruction level parallelism, energy efficiency

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Hyesoon Kim, Jos? A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, "Diverge-Merge Processor: Generalized and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Predication," IEEE Micro, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 94-104, Jan./Feb. 2007, doi:10.1109/MM.2007.9

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