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Performance evaluation of the PowerPC 620 microarchitecture

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Christopher Nelson,

John Paul ShenAuthors Info & Claims

ISCA '95: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture

Pages 163 - 174

https://doi.org/10.1145/223982.224417

Published: 01 May 1995 Publication History

Abstract

The PowerPC 620™ microprocessor is the most recent and performance leading member of the PowerPC™ family. The 64-bit PowerPC 620 microprocessor employs a two-phase branch prediction scheme, dynamic renaming for all the register files, distributed multi-entry reservation stations, true out-of-order execution by six execution units, and a completion buffer for ensuring precise exceptions. This paper presents an instruction-level performance evaluation of the 620 microarchitecture. A performance simulator is developed using the VMW (Visualization-based Microarchitecture Workbench) retargetable framework. The VMW-based simulator accurately models the microarchitecture down to the machine cycle level. Extensive trace-driven simulation is performed using the SPEC92 benchmarks. Detailed quantitative analyses of the effectiveness of all key microarchitecture features are presented.

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ISCA '95: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture

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ISBN:0897916980

DOI:10.1145/223982

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Special Issue: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture (ISCA '95)
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