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ISCA
2002
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Drowsy Caches: Simple Techniques for Reducing Leakage Power
On-chip caches represent a sizable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have the potential...
Krisztián Flautner, Nam Sung Kim, Steven M....
GLVLSI
1998
IEEE
122views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 1998»
15 years 1 months ago
Reducing Power Consumption of Dedicated Processors Through Instruction Set Encoding
With the increased clock frequency of modern, high-performance processors over 500 MHz, in some cases, limiting the power dissipation has become the most stringent design target. ...
Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli, Alberto Macii, E...
ICCD
2004
IEEE
112views Hardware» more  ICCD 2004»
15 years 6 months ago
Reducing Issue Queue Power for Multimedia Applications using a Feedback Control Algorithm
In this work, we propose a dynamic power-aware issue queue in a general-purpose microprocessor for multimedia applications. Its resources can be adapted at runtime in accordance w...
Yu Bai, R. Iris Bahar
ICCD
2007
IEEE
182views Hardware» more  ICCD 2007»
15 years 4 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
ISCA
1993
IEEE
157views Hardware» more  ISCA 1993»
15 years 1 months ago
The Performance of Cache-Coherent Ring-based Multiprocessors
Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
Luiz André Barroso, Michel Dubois