Title
A Leakage Efficient Instruction Tlb Design For Embedded Processors
Abstract
This paper presents a leakage-efficient instruction TLB (Translation Lookaside Butter) design for embedded processors. The key observation is that when programs enter a physical page, the following instructions tend to be fetched from the same page for a rather long time. Thus, by employing a small storage component which holds the recent address-translation information, the TLB access frequency can be drastically decreased, and the instruction TLB can be turned into the low-leakage mode with the dual voltage supply technique. Based on such a design philosophy, three leakage control policies are proposed to maximize the leakage reduction efficiency. Evaluation results with eight MiBench programs show that the proposed design can reduce the leakage power of the instruction TLB by 50% on average, with only 0.01% performance degradation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1587/transinf.E94.D.1565
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
leakage power, TLB, embedded processor
Computer vision,Computer architecture,Leakage (electronics),Computer science,Voltage,Leakage power,Artificial intelligence,Philosophy of design,Translation lookaside buffer,Embedded system,Access frequency
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E94D
8
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lei Zhao1223.05
Hui Xu211.03
Daisuke Ikebuchi3806.86
Tetsuya Sunata4233.07
Mitaro Namiki59720.69
Hideharu Amano61375210.21