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ISLPED
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
A simple mechanism to adapt leakage-control policies to temperature
Leakage power reduction in cache memories continues to be a critical area of research because of the promise of a significant pay-off. Various techniques have been developed so fa...
Stefanos Kaxiras, Polychronis Xekalakis, Georgios ...
MICRO
1997
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
The Filter Cache: An Energy Efficient Memory Structure
Most modern microprocessors employ one or two levels of on-chip caches in order to improve performance. These caches are typically implemented with static RAM cells and often occu...
Johnson Kin, Munish Gupta, William H. Mangione-Smi...
IPCCC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
OS-aware tuning: improving instruction cache energy efficiency on system workloads
Low power has been considered as an important issue in instruction cache (I-cache) designs. Several studies have shown that the I-cache can be tuned to reduce power. These techniq...
Tao Li, Lizy K. John
MICRO
2008
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Reducing the harmful effects of last-level cache polluters with an OS-level, software-only pollute buffer
It is well recognized that LRU cache-line replacement can be ineffective for applications with large working sets or non-localized memory access patterns. Specifically, in lastle...
Livio Soares, David K. Tam, Michael Stumm
CODES
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
System-level mitigation of WID leakage power variability using body-bias islands
Adaptive Body Biasing (ABB) is a popularly used technique to mitigate the increasing impact of manufacturing process variations on leakage power dissipation. The efficacy of the ...
Siddharth Garg, Diana Marculescu