Process variations will greatly impact the stability, leakage power consumption, and performance of future microprocessors. These variations are especially detrimental to 6T SRAM ...
Xiaoyao Liang, Ramon Canal, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Bro...
Fast instruction decoding is a challenge for the design of CISC microprocessors. A well-known solution to overcome this problem is using a trace cache. It stores and fetches alrea...
Today's feature-rich multimedia products require embedded system solution with complex System-on-Chip (SoC) to meet market expectations of high performance at a low cost and l...
T. S. Rajesh Kumar, C. P. Ravikumar, R. Govindaraj...
Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) is considered to be a promising future memory technology due to its low leakage power, high density and fast read speed. The heterogeneous int...
In this paper, we present two methods to reduce leakage energy by dynamically resizing the cache during program execution. The first method monitors the miss rate of the individua...