Caches may consume half of a microprocessor’s total power and cache misses incur accessing off-chip memory, which is both time consuming and energy costly. Therefore, minimizing...
The growing speed gap between memory and processor makes an efficient use of the cache ever more important to reach high performance. One of the most important ways to improve cac...
As technology scales down at an exponential rate, leakage power is fast becoming the dominant component of the total power budget. A large share of the total leakage power is diss...
Software cache-based side channel attacks present a serious threat to computer systems. Previously proposed countermeasures were either too costly for practical use or only effect...
This paper proposes a combination of circuit and architectural techniques to maximize leakage power reduction in embedded processor on-chip caches. It targets cache peripheral cir...
Houman Homayoun, Mohammad A. Makhzan, Alexander V....
Integrating more processor cores on-die has become the unanimous trend in the microprocessor industry. Most of the current research thrusts using chip multiprocessors (CMPs) as th...
Chinnakrishnan S. Ballapuram, Ahmad Sharif, Hsien-...
TaP is a storage cache sequential prefetching and caching technique to improve the read-ahead cache hit rate and system response time. A unique feature of TaP is the use of a tabl...
Mingju Li, Elizabeth Varki, Swapnil Bhatia, Arif M...
In this paper we introduce Resizable Data Composer-Cache (RDC-Cache). This novel cache architecture operates correctly at sub 500 mV in 65 nm technology tolerating large number of...
Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Ahmed M. Eltawil, F...
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
When dense matrix computations are too large to fit in cache, previous research proposes tiling to reduce or eliminate capacity misses. This paper presents a new algorithm for ch...