CS252: Reading Assignment #6 Due Monday, February 13th

1. Alternative Implementations of Two-level Adaptive Branch Prediction, Tse-Yu Yeh and Yale Patt. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1992. See ISCA Retrospective
2. The YAGS branch prediction scheme, A. N. Eden and T. Mudge. Proceedings of International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-31), 1998 
3. A Comparative Analysis of Schemes for Correlated Branch Prediction, Cliff Young, Nicolas Gloy, and Michael D. Smith. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1995.

You must also:

Write two paragraphs for Monday.  Write one paragraph discussing the pros and cons of various branch predictors given in papers #1 and #2. Write one other paragraph summarizing paper #3.

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