Title :
New hardware scheme supporting precise exception handling for out-of-order execution
Author :
Hwang, G.C. ; Kyung, C.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
fDate :
1/6/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new hardware scheme is proposed to resolve data and control hazards and assure precise exception on out-of-order execution in a microarchitecture with multiple pipelined functional units. The core of the proposed hardware is a register file called CARF, which is made of CAM (content-addressable memory), with an efficient state-transition mechanism for precise exception handling and prompt branch misprediction recovery
Keywords :
content-addressable storage; exception handling; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; CAM; CARF; branch misprediction recovery; content-addressable memory; data/control hazards; hardware scheme; microarchitecture; multiple pipelined functional units; out-of-order execution; precise exception handling; register file; state-transition mechanism;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940022