MISPREDICTION OF PREDICTED TAKEN BRANCHES IN A DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: ABERNATHY, Chris, FAROOQ, Muhammad Umar, ISHII, Yasuo
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.05.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Apparatus and a method of operating the same is disclosed. Instruction fetch circuitry is provided to fetch a block of instructions from memory and branch prediction circuitry to generate branch prediction indications for each branch instruction present in the block of instructions. The branch predi...