• DocumentCode
    1276550
  • Title

    Access-mode predictions for low-power cache design

  • Author

    Zhu, Zhichun ; Zhang, Xiaodong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Coll. of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    58
  • Lastpage
    71
  • Abstract
    An access-mode prediction technique based on cache hit and miss speculation for cache design-achieves minimal energy consumption. Using this method, cache accesses can be adaptively switched between the way-prediction and the phased accessing modes.
  • Keywords
    cache storage; information retrieval; low-power electronics; power consumption; random-access storage; RAM; access-mode prediction technique; adaptively switched cache accesses; cache hit speculation; cache miss speculation; low-power cache design; minimal energy consumption; phased accessing mode; way-prediction mode; Circuits; Delay; Energy consumption; High performance computing; Microprocessors; Power dissipation; Probes; Random access memory; Read-write memory; System-on-a-chip;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MM.2002.997880
  • Filename
    997880