Limited energy and memory resources are important constraints in the design of an embedded system. Compression is an useful and widely employed mechanism to reduce the memory requ...
Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Narayanan Vijayk...
Researchers have proposed using hardware data compression units within the memory hierarchies of microprocessors in order to improve performance, energy efficiency, and functional...
Xi Chen, Lei Yang, Haris Lekatsas, Robert P. Dick,...
Tuning a configurable cache subsystem to an application can greatly reduce memory hierarchy energy consumption. Previous tuning methods use a level one configurable cache only, or...
Portable systems demand energy efficiency in order to maximize battery life. IRAM architectures, which combine DRAM and a processor on the same chip in a DRAM process, are more en...
Richard Fromm, Stylianos Perissakis, Neal Cardwell...
High power consumption and low energy efficiency have become significant impediments to future performance improvements in modern microprocessors. This paper contributes to the so...