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Records of the 2004 International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing (MTDT'04)
Tag Skipping Technique Using WTS Buffer for Optimal Low Power Cache Design
San Jose, California, USA
August 09-August 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2193-2
Adil Akaaboune, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Nazeih Botros, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Jaafar Alghazo, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
In this paper we present a robust technique to reduce the power consumption for a 4-way set-associativity cache. Our algorithm is a modification of the technique proposed by Choi et al, [5] which allows skipping tag look-ups to achieve a better power consumption design. Previous work shows that implementing tag-skipping technique on a Not-Load-on-write-miss architecture, though reduces the overall power consumption, yet still consumes significant power in write miss by frequently accessing main memory. We propose the use of a write tag-skipping (WTS) buffer (WTSB) to reduce the number of write misses by 50-85% therefore reducing accesses to more power consuming devices such as main memory. This results in shifting all tag-skipping operations occurring during a miss to a hit.
Index Terms:
Tag-Skipping, Victim Cache, Low-Power Cache
Citation:
Adil Akaaboune, Nazeih Botros, Jaafar Alghazo, "Tag Skipping Technique Using WTS Buffer for Optimal Low Power Cache Design," mtdt, pp.13-18, Records of the 2004 International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing (MTDT'04), 2004
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