Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture
Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture
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10.1109/isca45697.2020.00015
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2020-05
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B. Grayson;J. Rupley;Gerald D. Zuraski;Eric Quinnell;Daniel A. Jiménez;T. Nakra;P. Kitchin;Ryan Hensley;Edward Brekelbaum;Vikas Sinha;A. Ghiya
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B. Grayson;J. Rupley;Gerald D. Zuraski;Eric Quinnell;Daniel A. Jiménez;T. Nakra;P. Kitchin;Ryan Hensley;Edward Brekelbaum;Vikas Sinha;A. Ghiya
The Samsung Exynos family of cores are highperformance “big” processors developed at the Samsung Austin Research & Design Center (SARC) starting in late 2011. This paper discusses selected aspects of the microarchitecture of these cores - specifically perceptron-based branch prediction, Spectre v2 security enhancements, micro-operation cache algorithms, prefetcher advancements, and memory latency optimizations. Each micro-architecture item evolved over time, both as part of continuous yearly improvement, and in reaction to changing mobile workloads.