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

Claim 16:
17. The processor of claim 15, wherein the processor configured to determine whether the branch instruction hits in the first type of branch instruction prefetch table further comprises the processor configured to:
obtain an index into the first type of branch instruction prefetch table from a first portion of the branch instruction;
read one or more tag bits from one or more Ways in the first 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 first type of branch instruction prefetch table matches tag bits from the branch instruction; and
determine, in response to one or more tag bits read from the one or more Ways from the first type of branch instruction prefetch table matching the tag bits from the branch instruction, that there is a hit in the first type of branch instruction prefetch table.