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CDES
2006
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14 years 6 days ago
Instruction Fetch Energy Reduction Using Forward-Branch Bufferable Innermost Loop Buffer
Recently, several loop buffer designs have been proposed to reduce instruction fetch energy due to size and location advantage of loop buffer. Nevertheless, on design complexity di...
Bin-Hua Tein, I-Wei Wu, Chung-Ping Chung
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Instruction buffering exploration for low energy VLIWs with instruction clusters
— For multimedia applications, loop buffering is an efficient mechanism to reduce the power in the instruction memory of embedded processors. In particular, software controlled ...
Tom Vander Aa, Murali Jayapala, Francisco Barat, G...
LCTRTS
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Guaranteeing instruction fetch behavior with a lookahead instruction fetch engine (LIFE)
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin,...
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Using Virtual Load/Store Queues (VLSQs) to Reduce the Negative Effects of Reordered Memory Instructions
The use of large instruction windows coupled with aggressive out-oforder and prefetching capabilities has provided significant improvements in processor performance. In this paper...
Aamer Jaleel, Bruce L. Jacob
VLSID
2009
IEEE
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14 years 11 months ago
Code Transformations for TLB Power Reduction
The Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB) is a very important part in the hardware support for virtual memory management implementation of high performance embedded systems. The TLB...
Reiley Jeyapaul, Sandeep Marathe, Aviral Shrivasta...