Fast and accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction
ISCA '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Next cache line and set prediction
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
The filter cache: an energy efficient memory structure
MICRO 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
MediaBench: a tool for evaluating and synthesizing multimedia and communicatons systems
MICRO 30 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Automatic and efficient evaluation of memory hierarchies for embedded systems
Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Application-specific memory management for embedded systems using software-controlled caches
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
Wattch: a framework for architectural-level power analysis and optimizations
Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Reconfigurable caches and their application to media processing
Proceedings of the 27th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
A recursive algorithm for low-power memory partitioning
ISLPED '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Region-based caching: an energy-delay efficient memory architecture for embedded processors
CASES '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
Energy-oriented compiler optimizations for partitioned memory architectures
CASES '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
L1 data cache decomposition for energy efficiency
ISLPED '01 Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Direct addressed caches for reduced power consumption
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Advanced Data Layout Optimization for Multimedia Applications
IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 15 IPDPS 2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Power-Aware Replication of Data Structures in Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems
IPDPS '00 Proceedings of the 15 IPDPS 2000 Workshops on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Efficient Utilization of Scratch-Pad Memory in Embedded Processor Applications
EDTC '97 Proceedings of the 1997 European conference on Design and Test
Direct addressed caches for reduced power consumption
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Xtream-Fit: an energy-delay efficient data memory subsystem for embedded media processing
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Compiler-decided dynamic memory allocation for scratch-pad based embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
Coupling compiler-enabled and conventional memory accessing for energy efficiency
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Power-aware RAM mapping for FPGA embedded memory blocks
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/SIGDA 14th international symposium on Field programmable gate arrays
A low energy cache design for multimedia applications exploiting set access locality
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Heap data allocation to scratch-pad memory in embedded systems
Journal of Embedded Computing - Cache exploitation in embedded systems
Orchestrating data transfer for the cell/B.E. processor
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Supercomputing
DBDB: optimizing DMATransfer for the cell be architecture
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Supercomputing
Design space navigation for neighboring power-performance efficient microprocessor configurations
ARCS'05 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Architecture of Computing Systems conference on Systems Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing
Runtime biased pointer reuse analysis and its application to energy efficiency
PACS'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Power - Aware Computer Systems
Proceedings of the 9th conference on Computing Frontiers
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We claim that the unique characteristics of multimedia applications dictate media-sensitive architectural and compiler approaches to reduce the power consumption of the data cache. Our motivation is exploring energy savings for real-time multimedia workloads without sacrificing performance. Here, we present two complementary media-sensitive energy-saving techniques that leverage static information. While our first technique is applicable to existing architectures, in our second technique we adopt a more radical approach and propose a new caching architecture by re-evaluating the architecture-compiler interface.Our experiments show that substantial energy savings are possible in the data cache. Across a wide range of cache and architectural configurations we obtain up to 77% energy savings, while the performance varies from 14% improvement to 4% degradation depending on the application.