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 ...

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) ...

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 ...