Title
Coordinated refresh: energy efficient techniques for DRAM refresh scheduling
Abstract
As the size and speed of DRAM devices increase, the performance and energy overheads due to refresh become more significant. To reduce refresh penalty we propose techniques referred collectively as "Coordinated Refresh", in which scheduling of low power modes and refresh commands are coordinated so that most of the required refreshes are issued when the DRAM device is in the deepest low power Self Refresh (SR) mode. Our approach saves DRAM background power because the peripheral circuitry and clocks are turned off in the SR mode. Our proposed solutions improve DRAM energy efficiency by 10% as compared to baseline, averaged across all the SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ISLPED.2013.6629295
ISLPED
Keywords
Field
DocType
DRAM chips,clocks,energy conservation,low-power electronics,scheduling,DRAM energy efficiency,DRAM refresh scheduling,SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks,clocks,coordinated refresh,energy overheads,low power self refresh mode,peripheral circuitry,refresh commands,refresh penalty,DRAM refresh,energy efficiency,self refresh mode
Dram,Energy conservation,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Efficient energy use,Real-time computing,Spec#,Embedded system,Low-power electronics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4799-1235-3
14
0.55
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ishwar Bhati1481.96
Zeshan Chishti272334.65
Bruce Jacob31543103.58