SBCCI '05 Proceedings of the 18th annual symposium on Integrated circuits and system design
CODES+ISSS '05 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
GLSVLSI '06 Proceedings of the 16th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
Dynamic tag reduction for low-power caches in embedded systems with virtual memory
International Journal of Parallel Programming
B2P2: bounds based procedure placement for instruction TLB power reduction in embedded systems
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Software & Compilers for Embedded Systems
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Prior work on TLB power optimization considered circuit and architectural techniques. A recent software-based technique for data TLBs has considered the possibility of storing the frequently used virtual-to-physical address translations in a set of translation registers (TRs), and using them when necessary instead of going to the data TLB. This paper presents a compiler-based strategy for increasing the effectiveness of TRs. The idea is to restructure the application code in such a fashion that once a TR is loaded, its contents are reused as much as possible. Our experimental evaluation with six array-based benchmarks from the Spec2000 suite indicates that the proposed TR reuse strategy brings significant reductions in data TLB energy over an alternate strategy that employs TRs but does not restructure the code for TR reuse