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ICCD
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Reducing leakage power in peripheral circuits of L2 caches
Leakage power has grown significantly and is a major challenge in microprocessor design. Leakage is the dominant power component in second-level (L2) caches. This paper presents t...
Houman Homayoun, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
ICCD
2008
IEEE
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14 years 17 days ago
Adaptive techniques for leakage power management in L2 cache peripheral circuits
— Recent studies indicate that a considerable amount of an L2 cache leakage power is dissipated in its peripheral circuits, e.g., decoders, word-lines and I/O drivers. In additio...
Houman Homayoun, Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Jean-Luc...
CASES
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Multiple sleep mode leakage control for cache peripheral circuits in embedded processors
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....
DATE
2005
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Power-Performance Trade-Offs in Nanometer-Scale Multi-Level Caches Considering Total Leakage
In this paper, we investigate the impact of Tox and Vth on power performance trade-offs for on-chip caches. We start by examining the optimization of the various components of a s...
Robert Bai, Nam Sung Kim, Taeho Kgil, Dennis Sylve...
HPCA
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A novel architecture of the 3D stacked MRAM L2 cache for CMPs
Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) is considered to be a promising future memory technology due to its low leakage power, high density and fast read speed. The heterogeneous int...
Guangyu Sun, Xiangyu Dong, Yuan Xie, Jian Li, Yira...