A Scalable Register File Architecture for Dynamically Scheduled Processors

  • Authors:
  • Steven Wallace;Nader Bagherzadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PACT '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

A major obstacle in designing dynamically scheduled processors is the size and port requirement of the register file. By using a multiple banked register file and performing dynamic result renaming, a scalable register file architecture can be implemented without performance degradation. In addition, a new hybrid register renaming technique to efficiently map the logical to physical registers and reduce the branch misprediction penalty is introduced. The performance was simulated using the SPEC95 benchmark suite.