CSCI 6461: Computer Architecture Branch Prediction Instructor: M. Lancaster Corresponding to Hennessey and Patterson Fifth Edition Section 3.3 and Part of Section 3.9 September…

Abstraction Question General purpose processors have an abstraction layer fixed at the ISA and have little control over the compilers or code run on the machine Embedded…

CSCI 6461: Computer Architecture Branch Prediction Instructor: M. Lancaster Corresponding to Hennessey and Patterson Fifth Edition Section 3.3 and Part of Section 3.9 September…

EECS 583 – Class 4 If-conversion University of Michigan September 19, 2011 - * - Announcements & Reading Material Reminder – HW 1 due Friday Talk to Daya this week…

Chapter 6 The PowerPC 620 The PowerPC 620 The 620 was the first 64-bit superscalar processor to employ: True out-of-order execution, aggressive branch prediction, distributed…

Chapter 6 The PowerPC 620 The PowerPC 620 The 620 was the first 64-bit superscalar processor to employ: True out-of-order execution, aggressive branch prediction, distributed…

Control Hazard Review The nub of the problem: In what pipeline stage does the processor fetch the next instruction? If that instruction is a conditional branch, when does…