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- research-articleOctober 2021
PDede: Partitioned, Deduplicated, Delta Branch Target Buffer
- Niranjan K Soundararajan,
- Peter Braun,
- Tanvir Ahmed Khan,
- Baris Kasikci,
- Heiner Litz,
- Sreenivas Subramoney
MICRO '21: MICRO-54: 54th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on MicroarchitecturePages 779–791https://doi.org/10.1145/3466752.3480046Due to large instruction footprints, contemporary data center applications suffer from frequent frontend stalls. Despite being a significant contributor to these stalls, the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) has received less attention compared to other ...
- research-articleOctober 2019
Towards the adoption of Local Branch Predictors in Modern Out-of-Order Superscalar Processors
- Niranjan Soundararajan,
- Saurabh Gupta,
- Ragavendra Natarajan,
- Jared Stark,
- Rahul Pal,
- Franck Sala,
- Lihu Rappoport,
- Adi Yoaz,
- Sreenivas Subramoney
MICRO '52: Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on MicroarchitecturePages 519–530https://doi.org/10.1145/3352460.3358315Branch prediction accuracy plays a dominant role in the performance provided by modern Out-of-Order(OOO) superscalar processors. While global history-based branch predictors are more popular, local history-based predictors offer an additional dimension ...