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TVLSI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
C-Pack: A High-Performance Microprocessor Cache Compression Algorithm
Microprocessor designers have been torn between tight constraints on the amount of on-chip cache memory and the high latency of off-chip memory, such as dynamic random access memor...
Xi Chen, Lei Yang, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang, Haris...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Energy reduction for STT-RAM using early write termination
The emerging Spin Torque Transfer memory (STT-RAM) is a promising candidate for future on-chip caches due to STT-RAM's high density, low leakage, long endurance and high acce...
Ping Zhou, Bo Zhao, Jun Yang 0002, Youtao Zhang
ISCA
2007
IEEE
130views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Non-Inclusion Property in Multi-Level Caches Revisited
The center of gravity of computer architecture is moving toward memory systems. Barring breakthrough microarchitectural techniques to move processor performance to higher levels, ...
Mohamed M. Zahran, Kursad Albayraktaroglu, Manoj F...
EUROPAR
2010
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Efficient Address Mapping of Shared Cache for On-Chip Many-Core Architecture
Abstract. Performance of the on-chip cache is critical for processor. The multithread program model usually employed by on-chip many-core architectures may have effects on cache ac...
Fenglong Song, Dongrui Fan, Zhiyong Liu, Junchao Z...
ICCD
1999
IEEE
122views Hardware» more  ICCD 1999»
14 years 3 months ago
Design and Evaluation of a Selective Compressed Memory System
This research explores any potential for an on-chip cache compression which can reduce not only cache miss ratio but also miss penalty, if main memory is also managed in compresse...
Jang-Soo Lee, Won-Kee Hong, Shin-Dug Kim
DATE
2010
IEEE
180views Hardware» more  DATE 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
A reconfigurable cache memory with heterogeneous banks
Abstract— The optimal size of a large on-chip cache can be different for different programs: at some point, the reduction of cache misses achieved when increasing cache size hits...
Domingo Benitez, Juan C. Moure, Dolores Rexachs, E...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
DDCache: Decoupled and Delegable Cache Data and Metadata
Abstract—In order to harness the full compute power of manycore processors, future designs must focus on effective utilization of on-chip cache and bandwidth resources. In this p...
Hemayet Hossain, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Michael C. Hua...