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 …

Power dissipation is increasingly important in CPUs ranging from those intended for mobile
use, all the way up to high-performance processors for high-end servers. While the bulk of …

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 …

Set-associative caches achieve low miss rates for typical applications but result in significant
energy dissipation. Set-associative caches minimize access time by probing all the data …

Execution time is no longer the only metric by which computational systems are judged. In
fact, explicitly sacrificing raw performance in exchange for energy savings is becoming a …

Detecting program phase changes accurately is an important aspect of dynamically
adaptable systems. Three dynamic program phase detection techniques are compared …