• DocumentCode
    3089375
  • Title

    Energy efficient cache timing with performance bound

  • Author

    Leipo, Yan ; Lam, Siew Kei ; Srikanthan, Thambipillai ; Jigang, Wu

  • Author_Institution
    Center for High Performance Embedded Syst., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    17-19 Jan. 2006
  • Abstract
    Cache memories are the bottle-necks that limit the performance of the processors. In this paper, we present a heuristic algorithm for tuning the level-1 cache. The tuning method searches for the most energy efficient cache configuration under application performance requirement. By simulations we show that the proposed heuristic tuning algorithm is able to find the optimal or near optimal configurations. An algorithm for reducing the number of searched configurations is also proposed.
  • Keywords
    cache storage; circuit tuning; cache memories; energy efficient cache configuration; energy efficient cache timing; heuristic tuning algorithm; level-1 cache tuning; Algorithm design and analysis; Application specific integrated circuits; Cache memory; Embedded system; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Heuristic algorithms; Microprocessors; System-on-a-chip; Time to market;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronic Design, Test and Applications, 2006. DELTA 2006. Third IEEE International Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2500-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DELTA.2006.45
  • Filename
    1581195