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Low-power Filter Cache Design Technique for Multicore Processors

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2009, 14(12), pp.9-16
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science

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1전남대학교
2울산대학교

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ABSTRACT

Energy consumption as well as performance should be considered when designing up-to-date multicore processors. In this paper, we propose new design technique to reduce the energy consumption in the instruction cache for multicore processors by using modified filter cache. The filter cache has been recognized as one of the most energy-efficient design techniques for singlecore processors. The energy consumed in the instruction cache accounts for a significant portion of total processor energy consumption. Therefore, energy-aware instruction cache design techniques are essential to reduce the energy consumption in a multicore processor. The proposed technique reduces the energy consumption in the instruction cache for multicore processors by reducing the number of accesses to the level-1 instruction cache. We evaluate the proposed design using a simulation infrastructure based on SimpleScalar and CACTI. Simulation results show that the proposed architecture reduces the energy consumption in the instruction cache for multicore processors by up to 3.4% compared to the conventional filter cache architecture. Moreover, the proposed architecture shows better performance over the conventional filter cache architecture.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.