Title
Energy-aware Filter Cache Architecture for Multicore Processors
Abstract
Energy consumption as well as performance should be considered when designing high-performance multicore 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 for high-performance multicore processors. In this paper, we propose new instruction cache architecture, which is based on the level-0 cache composed of filter cache and victim cache together, for multicore processors. The proposed architecture reduces the energy consumption in the instruction cache 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 technique reduces the energy consumption in the instruction cache 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/DELTA.2010.21
DELTA
Keywords
Field
DocType
cacti,power aware computing,new instruction cache architecture,cache storage,energy consumption reduction,energy aware filter cache architecture,multicore processor,conventional filter cache architecture,multiprocessing systems,energy-aware filter cache architecture,instruction cache account,instruction cache architecture,processor energy consumption,victim cache,energy consumption,instruction sets,energy-aware instruction cache design,filter cache,simplescalar,level-1 instruction cache,level-0 cache,instruction cache,energy aware instruction cache design technique,multicore processors,high performance multicore processor,organizations,multicore processing,energy efficiency
Cache invalidation,Cache pollution,Computer science,Snoopy cache,Cache,Parallel computing,Page cache,Real-time computing,Cache algorithms,Cache coloring,Smart Cache
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-6026-7
3
0.42
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young Jin Park1239.10
Hong Jun Choi2305.74
Cheol Hong Kim37324.39
Jong-Myon Kim49125.99