NDLI: Data cache energy minimizations through programmable tag size matching to the applications

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Orailoglu, Alex Petrov, Peter
Abstract	An application-specific customization methodology for minimizing the energy dissipation in the data cache of embedded processors is presented in this paper. The data cache subsystem is one of the most power consuming microarchitectural parts of embedded processors. We target in this work particularly the data cache tag operations and show how an exceedingly small number of tag bits, if any, are needed to compute the miss/hit behavior for the vast majority of load/store instructions executed within application loops. The energy needed to perform the tag reads and comparisons can be thus dramatically reduced. We follow up this conceptual enhancement with a presentation of an efficient, reprogrammable implementation that utilizes application-specific information to apply the suggested energy minimization approach. The conducted experimental results confirm the expected significant decrease of energy dissipation for a set of important numerical kernels.
Starting Page	113
Ending Page	117
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581134185
DOI	10.1145/500001.500028
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2001-09-30
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Data cache energy minimizations through programmable tag size matching to the applications