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High performance and alleviated hot-spot problem in processor frontend with enhanced instruction fetch bandwidth utilization

Rajamani et al., 2006

Document ID
7924686756366548021
Author
Rajamani P
Shah J
Sankaranarayanan V
Sangireddy R
Publication year
Publication venue
2006 IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference

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Current day wide-issue processors require the fetch engine in the frontend to continuously supply instructions to the issue queue in the backend to extract maximum possible amount of instruction level parallelism (ILP). Further, due to the continuous access of level-1 …
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