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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2024
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Rami Mohammad Al Sheikh, Morrisville, NC (US);
Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou, Austin, TX (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus comprises storage circuitry to maintain a data-dependent branch prediction table comprising at least one data-dependent branch prediction entry. Each data-dependent branch prediction entry identifies a data-dependent branch instruction, a sequence start address identifying the start of a sequence of two or more memory addresses, and a sequence of observed branch outcomes for a sequence of instances of the data-dependent branch instruction, each instance of the data-dependent branch instruction having a branch outcome correlated with a corresponding memory address in the sequence of two or more memory addresses. Prediction circuitry is configured to use the sequence of branch outcomes provided by the given data-dependent branch prediction entry to predict a branch outcome of at least one subsequent instance of a given branch instruction.