System-on-a-chip (SOC) platform manufacturers are increasingly adding configurable features that provide power and performance flexibility in order to increase a platform's ap...
Modern processors have a small on-chip local memory for instructions. Usually it is in the form of a cache but in some cases it is an addressable memory. In the latter, the user is...
Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a standard on-chip core interface specification. The current release is flexible and configurable to support the communication needs of a wide range...
State-of-the-art networked storage servers are equipped with increasingly powerful computing capability and large DRAM memory as storage caches. However, their contribution to the...
Existing schemes for cache energy optimization incorporate a limited degree of dynamic associativity: either direct mapped or full available associativity (say 4-way). In this pap...