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MICRO
2000
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Memory hierarchy reconfiguration for energy and performance in general-purpose processor architectures
Conventional microarchitectures choose a single memory hierarchy design point targeted at the average application. In this paper, we propose a cache and TLB layout and design that...
Rajeev Balasubramonian, David H. Albonesi, Alper B...
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Decode filter cache for energy efficient instruction cache hierarchy in super scalar architectures
Abstract-- The power consumption of microprocessors has been increasing in step with the complexity of each progressive generation. In general purpose processors, this is primarily...
Kugan Vivekanandarajah, Thambipillai Srikanthan, S...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Distributed loop controller architecture for multi-threading in uni-threaded VLIW processors
Reduced energy consumption is one of the most important design goals for embedded application domains like wireless, multimedia and biomedical. Instruction memory hierarchy has be...
Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A DVS-based pipelined reconfigurable instruction memory
Energy consumption is of significant concern in battery operated embedded systems. In the processors of such systems, the instruction cache consumes a significant fraction of the ...
Zhiguo Ge, Tulika Mitra, Weng-Fai Wong
ISCA
1997
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
The Energy Efficiency of IRAM Architectures
Portable systems demand energy efficiency in order to maximize battery life. IRAM architectures, which combine DRAM and a processor on the same chip in a DRAM process, are more en...
Richard Fromm, Stylianos Perissakis, Neal Cardwell...