Power Efficient Data Cache Designs

  • Authors:
  • Jaume Abella;Antonio González

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCD '03 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Design
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper investigates some power efficient data cache designsthat try to significantly reduce the cache energy consumption, bothstatic and dynamic, with a minimal impact in performance. The basicidea is to combine different threshold voltages with differentcache organizations that provide different levels of performance.Multi-banked organizations in combination with different approachesto allocate data to cache banks are explored. Some of the resultingcache architectures are shown to provide a good tradeoff betweenpower and performance.