Abstract: Software prefetching has been demonstrated as a powerful technique to tolerate long load latencies. However, to be effective, prefetching must target the most critical (frequently missing) ...

Abstract: One of the significant issues of processor architecture is to overcome memory latency. Prefetching can greatly improve cache performance, however, it has the drawback of cache pollution ...

In this project you will be working to implement a hardware prefectcher. You will be given a basic cache simulator with an interface to a prefetcher. Your task will be to implement the prefetcher ...

Prefetching, in the context of CPU caches, is an optimization technique whose objective is to bring instructions/data into the CPU caches before they are actually required. An effective prefetch hides ...