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HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the Limits of Leakage Power Reduction in Caches
If current technology scaling trends hold, leakage power dissipation will soon become the dominant source of power consumption in high performance processors. Caches, due to the f...
Yan Meng, Timothy Sherwood, Ryan Kastner
ISLPED
2006
ACM
119views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Process variation aware cache leakage management
In a few technology generations, limitations of fabrication processes will make accurate design time power estimates a daunting challenge. Static leakage current which comprises a...
Ke Meng, Russ Joseph
ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
156views VLSI» more  ISVLSI 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Cache Power Reduction in Presence of Within-Die Delay Variation Using Spare Ways
The share of leakage in cache power consumption increases with technology scaling. Choosing a higher threshold voltage (Vth) and/or gate-oxide thickness (Tox) for cache transistor...
Maziar Goudarzi, Tadayuki Matsumura, Tohru Ishihar...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
117views Hardware» more  MICRO 2002»
13 years 4 months ago
Drowsy instruction caches: leakage power reduction using dynamic voltage scaling and cache sub-bank prediction
On-chip caches represent a sizeable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have the potentia...
Nam Sung Kim, Krisztián Flautner, David Bla...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
150views Hardware» more  ISQED 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Fundamental Data Retention Limits in SRAM Standby Experimental Results
SRAM leakage power dominates the total power of low duty-cycle applications, e.g., sensor nodes. Accordingly, leakage power reduction during data-retention in SRAM standby is ofte...
Animesh Kumar, Huifang Qin, Prakash Ishwar, Jan M....