Due to the large contribution of the memory subsystem to total system power, the memory subsystem is highly amenable to customization for reduced power/energy and/or improved perf...
Pablo Viana, Ann Gordon-Ross, Edna Barros, Frank V...
Energy consumption is a crucial factor in designing batteryoperated embedded and mobile systems. The memory system is a major contributor to the system energy in such environments...
Hyun Suk Kim, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mahmut T. K...
Blocking is a well-known optimization technique for improving the effectiveness of memory hierarchies. Instead of operating on entire rows or columns of an array, blocked algorith...
Monica S. Lam, Edward E. Rothberg, Michael E. Wolf
Lowering power consumption in microprocessors, whether used in portables or not, has now become one of the most critical design concerns. On-chip cache memories tend to occupy dom...
Sangyeun Cho, Wooyoung Jung, Yongchun Kim, Seh-Woo...
We describe a radically new cache architecture and demonstrate that it offers a huge reduction in cache cost, size and power consumption whilst maintaining performance on a wide ra...