The  2bcgskew simulator

 

Authors: André Seznec, Thomas Piquet

Contact: André Seznec


Last Modification: Sept. 03

 

 

Objectives

The  2bcgskew simulator is provided as is in order to serve as a  reference simulator for helping to test new ideas related to  branch prediction.

 

Bibliography.


[1] P.Michaud, A. Seznec, R. Uhlig, `` Trading conflict and capacity aliasing in conditional branch predictors '', Proceedings of the 24th International  Symposium on Computer Architecture (IEEE-ACM), Denver, june 1997

[2] A. Seznec, P. Michaud Dealiased Hybrid Branch Predictors , IRISA Report No 1229, Feb. 1999

[3]   A. Seznec, S. Felix,  V. Krishnan,  Y.  Sazeides , "Design trade-offs on the EV8 branch predictor", Slides (Powerpoint) ,  Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (IEEE-ACM),  Anchorage,  may 2002
 

[4] A. Seznec, ``An optimized 2bcgskew branch predictor',  september 2003