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EECE 7352: Computer Architecture HW3 Due March 29 11:59pm Eastern Question 1. (10 points) Read the following paper which focuses on RISC vs CISC debate. List four main findings from this paper. Also, discuss the key limitations and weaknesses of the paper. Please present your point of view in a concise and coherent manner. Your articulation should be technically sound and crisp. Please do not write more than 15 lines (three-four paragraphs) and do not copy paste from the paper. Question 2. (20 points) Read the following papers and list three major findings from each paper. Question 3. (10 points) Read the following paper on SLB predictors and describe the main problem this paper is solving (use specific C code examples to support your answer). Why do authors argue that history-based branch predictions are not sufficient? HPCA 2001: “ Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons ” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lin/papers/hpca01.pdf HPCA 2013: “ Power Struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC Debate on Contemporary ARM and x86 Architectures ” https://research.cs.wisc.edu/vertical/papers/2013/hpca13-isa-power-struggles.pdf HPCA 2013: “Store-Load-Branch (SLB) Predictor: A Compiler Assisted Branch Prediction for Data Dependent Branches” https://lca.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/hpca_2013_umar.pdf MICRO 2020: “ BranchNet: A Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Hard-To-Predict Branches ” https://hps.ece.utexas.edu/pub/BranchNet_Micro2020.pdf
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