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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).
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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