This paper proposes a new approach using way prediction for achieving high performance and low energy consumption of set-associative caches. By accessing only a single cache way p...
Modern microprocessors employ one or two levels of on-chip cachesto bridge the burgeoning speeddisparities between the processor and the RAM. These SRAM caches are a major source ...
Gating the clock is an important technique used in low power design to disable unused modules of a circuit. Gating can save power by both preventing unnecessary activiiy in the lo...
Abstract – In this paper, we propose a modeling approach for the average power consumption of macro-blocks that are typically used in digital signal processing (DSP) systems, suc...
While guarded evaluation has proven an effective energy saving technique in arithmetic circuits, good methodologies do not exist for determining when and how to guard for maximal ...
In this paper, we propose a technique that uses an additional mini cache, the L0-Cache, located between the instruction cache I-Cache and the CPU core. This mechanism can provid...
Nikolaos Bellas, Ibrahim N. Hajj, Constantine D. P...