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The filter cache: an energy efficient memory structure

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Johnson Kin,

Munish Gupta, and

William H. Mangione-SmithAuthors Info & Claims

MICRO 30: Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture

December 1997

Pages 184 - 193

Published: 01 December 1997 Publication History

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Most modern microprocessors employ one or two levels of on-chip caches in order to improve performance. These caches are typically implemented with static RAM cells and often occupy a large portion of the chip area. Not surprisingly, these caches often consume a significant amount of power. In many applications, such as portable devices, low power is more important than performance. We propose to trade performance for power consumption by filtering cache references through an unusually small L1 cache. An L2 cache, which is similar in size and structure to a typical L1 cache, is positioned behind the filter cache and serves to reduce the performance loss. Experimental results across a wide range of embedded applications show that the filter cache results in improved memory system energy efficiency. For example, a direct mapped 256-byte filter cache achieves a 58% power reduction while reducing performance by 21%, corresponding to a 51% reduction in the energy-delay product over conventional design.

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MICRO 30: Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture

December 1997

369 pages

ISBN:0818679778

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Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
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North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh

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