The emerging trend of larger number of cores or processors on a single chip in the server, desktop, and mobile notebook platforms necessarily demands larger amount of on-chip last...
Low power has been considered as an important issue in instruction cache (I-cache) designs. Several studies have shown that the I-cache can be tuned to reduce power. These techniq...
— 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...
As technology scales down at an exponential rate, leakage power is fast becoming the dominant component of the total power budget. A large share of the total leakage power is diss...
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...