Name
Title | ||
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Virtual Ways: Low-Cost Coherence for Instruction Set Extensions with Architecturally Visible Storage |
Abstract | ||
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Instruction set extensions (ISEs) improve the performance and energy consumption of application-specific processors. ISEs can use architecturally visible storage (AVS), localized compiler-controlled memories, to provide higher I/O bandwidth than reading data from the processor pipeline. AVS creates coherence and consistence problems with the data cache. Although a hardware coherence protocol could solve the problem, this approach is costly for a single-processor system. As a low-cost alternative, we introduce Virtual Ways, which ensures coherence through a reduced form of inclusion between the data cache and AVS. Virtual Ways achieve higher performance and lower energy consumption than using a hardware coherence protocol. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2014 | 10.1145/2576877 | TACO |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
memory coherence,design,experimentation,instruction set extension,architecturally visible storage,memory consistence,performance,virtual ways,real-time and embedded systems | Computer science,Instruction set,Instruction pipeline,Parallel computing,Coherence (physics),Real-time computing,Memory coherence,Bandwidth (signal processing),Data cache,Computer hardware,Energy consumption | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
11 | 2 | 1544-3566 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 18 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theo Kluter | 1 | 65 | 5.08 |
| Samuel Burri | 2 | 9 | 1.99 |
| Philip Brisk | 3 | 786 | 60.63 |
| Edoardo Charbon | 4 | 385 | 74.69 |
| Paolo Ienne | 5 | 2246 | 199.26 |