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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Julio Gago Alonso, Barcelona, ES;
Santiago Galan, Molins de Rei, ES;
Ivan Pizarro, Hospitalet de Llobregat, ES;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A branch prediction device includes a hierarchy of successively slower to access branch target buffers that store branch target buffer entries identifying branch instructions, branch prediction circuitry configured to predict future branch instructions, and a branch target buffer prefetch table coupled to receive candidate entries corresponding to predicted future branch instruction branch target buffer misses, each entry of the candidate entries corresponding to a precursor branch instruction, and to receive predicted precursor branch instructions that trigger promotion of an entry in a branch target buffer of the branch target buffers to a faster branch target buffer of the branch target buffers.
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