Title
Energy optimization of a multi-bank main memory
Abstract
A growing part of the energy, battery-driven embedded system, is consumed by the off-chip main memory. In order to minimize this memory consumption, an architectural solution is recently adopted. It consists of multi-banking the addressing space instead of monolithic memory. The main advantage in this approach is the capability of setting banks in low power modes when they are not accessed, such that only the accessed bank is maintained in active mode. In this paper we investigate how this power management capability built into modern DRAM devices can be handled for multi-task applications. We aim to find, at system level design, both an efficient allocation of applications tasks to memory banks, and the memory configuration that lessen the energy consumption: number of banks and the size of each bank. Results show the effectiveness of this approach and the large energy savings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11796435_21
SAMOS
Keywords
Field
DocType
battery-driven embedded system,applications task,energy consumption,large energy saving,memory consumption,monolithic memory,energy optimization,off-chip main memory,memory configuration,multi-bank main memory,accessed bank,memory bank,embedded system,system level design,chip
Memory bank,Interleaved memory,Uniform memory access,Computer science,Distributed memory,Memory management,Flat memory model,Energy consumption,Memory architecture,Embedded system
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4017
0302-9743
3-540-36410-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hanene Ben Fradj1123.46
Sébastien Icart200.68
Cécile Belleudy38412.98
Michel Auguin423835.10