Title :
A new organization for a perceptron-based branch predictor and its FPGA implementation
Author :
Cadenas, Oswaldo ; Megson, Graham ; Jones, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Syst. Eng., Reading Univ., UK
Abstract :
An unaltered rearrangement of the original computation of a neural based predictor at the algorithmic level is introduced as a new organization. Its FPGA implementation generates circuits that are 1.7 faster than a direct implementation of the original algorithm. This faster clock rate allows to implement predictors with longer history lengths using the nearly the same hardware budget.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; multilayer perceptrons; predictor-corrector methods; FPGA; neural-based predictor computation; perceptron-based branch predictor; pipelined processors; Accuracy; Circuits; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; History; Learning systems; Modeling; Prediction algorithms; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI, 2005. Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2365-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISVLSI.2005.11