Title
Energy-aware fetch mechanism: trace cache and BTB customization
Abstract
A highly-efficient fetch unit is essential not only to obtain good performance but also to achieve energy efficiency. However, existing designs are inflexible and depending on program behavior, can be either insufficient or an overkill. We introduce a phase-based adaptive fetch mechanism that can be dynamically adjusted based on feedback information of the program behavior. This design adds very little hardware complexity and relegates complex tasks to the software components. It is also very effective: saving 26.8% and 34.1% fetch energy on average compared with a conventional and a trace cache-based fetch unit, respectively. At the same time, performance is improved by 5.7% and 0.6%, respectively
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1077603.1077615
ISLPED
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
energy efficient,software component,adaptive,profiling
Conference
1-59593-137-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
13
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Chaver111711.35
Miguel A. Rojas260.89
Luis Pinuel3412.65
Manuel Prieto434931.23
Francisco Tirado540432.26
Michael C. Huang687558.47