Patent ID: 11960893
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The processor of claim 12, further configured to:
hash a first portion of the branch instruction with an information vector to obtain an index into the second type of branch instruction prefetch table;
read one or more tag bits from one or more Ways of the second type of branch instruction prefetch table corresponding to the index;
determine whether the one or more tag bits read from the one or more Ways in the second type of branch instruction prefetch table match tag bits from the branch instruction; and
determine, in response to one or more tag bits read from the one or more Ways in the second type of branch instruction prefetch table matching the tag bits from the branch instruction, that there is a hit in the second type of branch instruction prefetch table.