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A Power-Efficient and Scalable Load-Store Queue Design

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A Power-Efficient and Scalable Load-Store Queue Design
Abstract. The load-store queue (LQ-SQ) of modern superscalar processors is responsible for keeping the order of memory operations. As the performance gap between processing speed and memory access becomes worse, the capacity requirements for the LQ-SQ increase, and its design becomes a challenge due to its CAM structure. In this paper we propose an efficient load-store queue state filtering mechanism that provides a significant energy reduction (on average 35% in the LSQ and 3.5% in the whole processor), and only incurs a negligible performance loss of less than 0.6%.
Fernando Castro, Daniel Chaver, Luis Piñuel
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where PATMOS
Authors Fernando Castro, Daniel Chaver, Luis Piñuel, Manuel Prieto, Michael C. Huang, Francisco Tirado
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