Inventor

BOUZGUARROU HOUDHAIFA

US46 patents

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BOUZGUARROU HOUDHAIFA

ADVANCED RISC MACH LTD

Control flow prediction using pointers

Prediction class determination

Allocation filter for prediction storage structure

Branch prediction

Branch predictor

Branch prediction circuitry comprising a return address prediction structure and a branch target buffer structure

Apparatus and method for performing branch prediction using loop minimum iteration prediction

Performing at least two branch predictions for non-contiguous instruction blocks at the same time using a prediction mapping

Predicting detected branches as taken when cumulative weight values in a weight table selected by history register bits exceed a threshold value

Prediction of number of iterations of a fetching process

Apparatus and method for arbitrating access to a set of resources

Storage of prediction-related data

Selective prediction based on correlation between a given instruction and a subset of a set of monitored instructions ordinarily used to generate predictions for that given instruction

Circuitry and method

Controlling cache entry replacement based on usefulness of cache entry

Apparatus and method for handling incorrect branch direction predictions

Transactional recovery storage for branch history and return addresses to partially or fully restore the return stack and branch history register on transaction aborts

Apparatus and method for providing decoded instructions from a decoded instruction cache

Apparatus and method for making predictions for branch instructions

Apparatus and method for performing branch prediction

Apparatus and method for controlling branch prediction

Selective deactivation of prediction circuitry

Maintaining prediction data used to predict whether a branch represented by a branch instruction will be taken

Predicting behaviour of control flow instructions using prediction entry types

Branch prediction

Switching a predicted branch type following a misprediction of a number of loop iterations

Combiner cache structure

Branch prediction based on a predicted confidence that a corresponding function of sampled register state correlates to a later branch instruction outcome

Technique for predicting behaviour of control flow instructions

Data storage structure

Technique for predicting behaviour of control flow instructions

Micro-operation supply rate variation

Control flow prediction

Methods and apparatus for predicting instructions for execution

Circuitry and method

Apparatus and method for detecting regularity in a number of occurrences of an event observed during multiple instances of a counting period

Prediction data corruption

Filtering invalidation requests

Predicting upcoming control flow

Circuitry and method

Methods and apparatus for tracking instruction information stored in virtual sub-elements mapped to physical sub-elements of a given element

Re-enabling use of prediction table after execution state switch

Apparatus and method for performing branch prediction

Data processing

ARM LTD

Branch prediction based on sampled values

Technique for speculatively generating an output value in anticipation of its use by downstream processing circuitry