Power consumption is becoming an increasingly important constraint in the design of microprocessors. This paper examines the use of multiple constrained processors running at lowe...
Eric F. Weglarz, Kewal K. Saluja, Mikko H. Lipasti
— L1 data caches in high-performance processors continue to grow in set associativity. Higher associativity can significantly increase the cache energy consumption. Cache access...
Dan Nicolaescu, Babak Salamat, Alexander V. Veiden...
Microprocessor designers have been torn between tight constraints on the amount of on-chip cache memory and the high latency of off-chip memory, such as dynamic random access memor...
Xi Chen, Lei Yang, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang, Haris...
With the increasing performance gap between the processor and the memory, the importance of caches is increasing for high performance processors. However, with reducing feature si...