2 Survey of Literature Milena Milenkovic et. al [6] have presented experimental flow for the benchmark tests that determine the organization and size of a branch predictor using on-chip performance monitoring registers. Technical note by Scott McFarling [7] presents discussion on how the implementation leading to degree of instruction-level parallelism plays an advantageous role in boosting computing performance and suggested a method for combining different types of branch predictors for maximizing prediction accuracy for a given predictor size. Yeh and Patt [3] have introduced the idea of dynamically collecting branch history information at two different levels, namely, branch execution history and pattern history; the scheme being …show more content…
The motivation behind the whole work rests on various fundamental concepts taken from the work of Daniel A. Jimenez and Clavin Lin [2, 4] and Daniel A. Jimenez [5,8,16]. The branch predictor binary was successfully built using di erent compilers and tested under different platforms: (1): GNU C++ under Linux distribution CentOS Release 4.8, i386, 32bit; (2): Cygwin 32bit environment under Windows 7 and (3): Bloodshed Developer C++ (DevC++ 5.0.2). Literature survey has revealed that the proposed approach is unique and novel. 3 Background Concepts Instructions executed by a processor, in general, are of the types: load, store, move, add, compare or jump; a collection of which forms the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of any microprocessor. A jump is a control flow instruction, which can be broadly divided into two categories: (a) Conditional Branch (CB) and (b) Unconditional Branch (UB). Based on a run-time condition, CBs can be further classified as Forward CBs (FCBs), also called a forward jump, where the Program Counter (PC) is changed so as to point to an address ahead of the current position in the instruction stream; and Backward CBs (BCBs), a backward jump, where the PC is changed to point backward in the instruction stream. This is pictorially shown below in Fig.1 and Fig.2, respectively. Fig.1: Forward Jump Fig.2: Backward Jump An UB instruction
b) The address and control buses are activated with a memory address position and read command.
Nowadays, the major limitations on computation performance are memory access latencies and power consumption. Due to memory access latency, for instance, the recently achieved CPU clock frequency of 5.7 GHz must be constraint to the maximum access speed of off-chip
When a conditional branch is fetched from memory, the branch target address is used to index the selector table, this table then determines whether global or local predictor is used. The 2-bit counter in the selector table is updated if the chosen predictor is not taken and other predictor is taken.
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Memory segmentation is the division of a computer's primary memory information into sections. Segments are applied in object records of compiled programs when linked together into a program image and when the image is loaded into the memory. Segmentation sights a logical address as a collection of segments. Each segment has a name and length. With the addresses specifying both the segment name and the offset within the segment. Therefore the user specifies each address by two quantities: a segment name and an offset. When compared to the paging scheme, the user specifies a single address, which is partitioned by the hardware into a page number and an offset, all invisible to the programmer. Memory segmentation is more visible
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i)Memory address register(MAR), which specifies the address in memory for the next read or write
The channel which switches the multiple requirements and multiplexes the data transmissions from these devices a byte at a time is recognized as.....
address calculation of instructions - this determine the address of the next instruction to be processed.
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The challenges for OS structures depend on the diversity of hardware like number of cores, memory hierarchy, IO configuration, instruction sets and interconnects.
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In order to access the value of M in a C instruction, the A register is used to contain a pointer / address of the location of the value of M, in memory (RAM). In a jump instruction, the A register is used to contain the pointer / address of the next C instruction in the instruction ROM, should the jump be triggered (Nisan & Schocken, 2005, p. 69)
4. Performance Comparison of Dual Core Processors Using Multiprogrammed and Multithreaded Benchmarks ............................................................................................... 31 4.1 Overview ........................................................................................................... 31 4.2 Methodology ..................................................................................................... 31 Multiprogrammed Workload Measurements .................................................... 33 4.3 4.4 Multithreaded Program Behavior ..................................................................... 36 5. 6. Related Work ............................................................................................................ 39 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 41