ECE 3391 Computer Architecture
Paper Review

Fast and Accurate Instruction Fetch and Branch Prediction
by Brad Calder and Dirk Grunwald

Ram Annamalai
017-80-8535

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Background
• Improvements to BTB Architectures
  • Decoupled Prediction and Fall Throughs
  • Only Taken Allocate
• Dispensing with the BTB:An Alternative Architecture
  • Results obtained for the Alternative Architecture
• Summary and Conclusions
• References
• About this document ...

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