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ISLPED
2005
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
A simple mechanism to adapt leakage-control policies to temperature
Leakage power reduction in cache memories continues to be a critical area of research because of the promise of a significant pay-off. Various techniques have been developed so fa...
Stefanos Kaxiras, Polychronis Xekalakis, Georgios ...
MICRO
1997
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
The Filter Cache: An Energy Efficient Memory Structure
Most modern microprocessors employ one or two levels of on-chip caches in order to improve performance. These caches are typically implemented with static RAM cells and often occu...
Johnson Kin, Munish Gupta, William H. Mangione-Smi...
IPCCC
2006
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
OS-aware tuning: improving instruction cache energy efficiency on system workloads
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...
Tao Li, Lizy K. John
MICRO
2008
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
16 years 13 days ago
Reducing the harmful effects of last-level cache polluters with an OS-level, software-only pollute buffer
It is well recognized that LRU cache-line replacement can be ineffective for applications with large working sets or non-localized memory access patterns. Specifically, in lastle...
Livio Soares, David K. Tam, Michael Stumm
CODES
2008
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
System-level mitigation of WID leakage power variability using body-bias islands
Adaptive Body Biasing (ABB) is a popularly used technique to mitigate the increasing impact of manufacturing process variations on leakage power dissipation. The efficacy of the ...
Siddharth Garg, Diana Marculescu