AU6701794A - Speculative history mechanism in a branch target buffer - Google Patents

Speculative history mechanism in a branch target buffer

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Publication number
AU6701794A
AU6701794A AU67017/94A AU6701794A AU6701794A AU 6701794 A AU6701794 A AU 6701794A AU 67017/94 A AU67017/94 A AU 67017/94A AU 6701794 A AU6701794 A AU 6701794A AU 6701794 A AU6701794 A AU 6701794A
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Prior art keywords
target buffer
branch target
history mechanism
speculative history
speculative
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Abandoned
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AU67017/94A
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Inventor
Andrew F Glew
Glenn J Hinton
Bradley D Hoyt
Subramanian Natarajan
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Intel Corp
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Intel Corp
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Publication of AU6701794A publication Critical patent/AU6701794A/en
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3802—Instruction prefetching
    • G06F9/3804—Instruction prefetching for branches, e.g. hedging, branch folding
    • G06F9/3806—Instruction prefetching for branches, e.g. hedging, branch folding using address prediction, e.g. return stack, branch history buffer
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3836—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution
    • G06F9/3842—Speculative instruction execution
    • G06F9/3844—Speculative instruction execution using dynamic branch prediction, e.g. using branch history tables

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  • Software Systems (AREA)
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AU67017/94A 1993-05-14 1994-04-08 Speculative history mechanism in a branch target buffer Abandoned AU6701794A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US6201293A 1993-05-14 1993-05-14
US062012 1993-05-14
PCT/US1994/003897 WO1994027210A1 (en) 1993-05-14 1994-04-08 Speculative history mechanism in a branch target buffer
GB9414028A GB2291513B (en) 1993-05-14 1994-07-12 Speculative history mechanism in a branch target buffer

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AU6701794A true AU6701794A (en) 1994-12-12

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AU (1) AU6701794A (de)
BR (1) BR9406606A (de)
DE (1) DE4493224T1 (de)
GB (1) GB2291513B (de)
WO (1) WO1994027210A1 (de)

Families Citing this family (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US5864697A (en) * 1996-06-28 1999-01-26 Texas Instruments Incorporated Microprocessor using combined actual and speculative branch history prediction
US6260138B1 (en) * 1998-07-17 2001-07-10 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Method and apparatus for branch instruction processing in a processor
US6427206B1 (en) * 1999-05-03 2002-07-30 Intel Corporation Optimized branch predictions for strongly predicted compiler branches
WO2012093489A1 (ja) 2011-01-07 2012-07-12 富士通株式会社 演算処理装置および分岐予測方法

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US4477872A (en) * 1982-01-15 1984-10-16 International Business Machines Corporation Decode history table for conditional branch instructions
US4679141A (en) * 1985-04-29 1987-07-07 International Business Machines Corporation Pageable branch history table
JP2722523B2 (ja) * 1988-09-21 1998-03-04 日本電気株式会社 命令先取り装置
US5142634A (en) * 1989-02-03 1992-08-25 Digital Equipment Corporation Branch prediction
US5210831A (en) * 1989-10-30 1993-05-11 International Business Machines Corporation Methods and apparatus for insulating a branch prediction mechanism from data dependent branch table updates that result from variable test operand locations
US5226130A (en) * 1990-02-26 1993-07-06 Nexgen Microsystems Method and apparatus for store-into-instruction-stream detection and maintaining branch prediction cache consistency
US5265213A (en) * 1990-12-10 1993-11-23 Intel Corporation Pipeline system for executing predicted branch target instruction in a cycle concurrently with the execution of branch instruction

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GB2291513A (en) 1996-01-24
DE4493224T1 (de) 1996-04-25
WO1994027210A1 (en) 1994-11-24
BR9406606A (pt) 1996-01-02
GB9414028D0 (en) 1994-08-31
GB2291513B (en) 1999-04-28

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