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Dive into the complexities of instruction fetching in superscalar processors, covering key concepts like branch prediction and prefetching for optimal performance. Figure out the main dimensions of the design space in this detailed study.
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Microarchitecture of Superscalars (2)Instruction Fetching Dezső Sima Fall 2007 (Ver. 2.0) Dezső Sima, 2007
Instruction fetching (1) Figure 1.: Basic scheme of instruction fetching in sequential processors
Instruction fetching (2) Figure 2.: Basic scheme of instruction fetching using branch prediction
Instruction fetching (3) Instruction fetching Instruction prefetching Branch prediction Figure 3.: Main dimensions of the design space of instruction fetching