A Reconfigurable Cache Architecture for Energy Efficiency

Karthik T. Sundararajan, Timothy M. Jones, Nigel Topham

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Abstract

On-chip caches often consume a significant fraction of the total processor energy budget. Allowing adaptation to the running workload can significantly lower their energy consumption. In this paper, we present a novel Set and way Management cache Architecture for efficient Run-Time reconfiguration (Smart cache), a cache architecture that allows reconfiguration in both its size and associativity. Results show the energy-delay of the Smart cache is on average 18% better than state-of-the-art reconfiguration architectures.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
PublisherACM
Pages9:1-9:2
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Publication series

NameCF '11
PublisherACM

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • cache tuning, configurable cache, smart cache

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