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
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;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MM.2002.997880
