Modern processors are using increasingly larger sized on-chip caches. Also, with each
CMOS technology generation, there has been a significant increase in their leakage energy …

On-chip caches represent a sizable fraction of the total power consumption of
microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have …

Large last-level caches (L 3 Cs) are frequently used to bridge the performance and power
gap between processor and memory. Although traditional processors implement caches as …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple
processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) …

Microprocessors are designed to provide good average performance over a variety of
workloads. This can lead to inefficiencies both in power and performance for individual …

In the last few years, power dissipation has become an important design constraint, on par
with performance, in the design of new computer systems. Whereas in the past, the primary …

Energy consumption is a major concern in many embedded computing systems. Several
studies have shown that cache memories account for about 50% of the total energy …

Recent studies have shown that, in highly associative caches, the performance gap between
the least recently used (LRU) and the theoretical optimal replacement algorithms is large …

This report introduces HotLeakage, an architectural model for subthreshold and gate
leakage that we have developed here at the University of Virginia. The most important …