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2008 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools
Reducing Leakage through Filter Cache
September 03-September 05
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3277-6
We evaluate the leakage reduction for both instruction and data cache in presence of drowsy or decay techniques. We discovered that a filter cache,traditionally used for reducing active power, can help reduce also leakage. The key idea is to reduce the lifetime of the lines that are in high-power state inside a leakage-saving cache. Power consumption has become one of the main concerns for designers, together with the performance. Caches account for the largest fraction of on-chip transistors in most modern processors. Therefore, they are a primary candidate for attacking the problem of the leakage. In average with the proposed solution, for instruction cache 24% improvement in leakage savings and 1.5% in IPC (Instruction Per Cycle) can be achieved with respect to drowsy cache. For data caches, 5% and 5.4% improvement can be achieved respectively. Experiments have been performed also with decay cache showing fewer benefits.
Index Terms:
Cache decay, drowsy cache, filter cache, low power,
Citation:
Roberto Giorgi, Paolo Bennati, "Reducing Leakage through Filter Cache," dsd, pp.334-341, 2008 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools, 2008
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