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Energy aware memory architecture configuration

Authors:

Hanene Ben Fradj,

Asmaa el Ouardighi,

Cécile Belleudy, and

Michel AuguinAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 33, Issue 3

Pages 3 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1101868.1101871

Published: 29 September 2004 Publication History

Abstract

In the context of battery-driven embedded systems, reducing energy while maintaining performance is one of today's challenges. The on-chip memory count for a great part of the whole system consumption, especially for images and video processing applications that make heavy use of large memory data size.In this paper, we present new technique for efficiently exploiting on-chip memory space (cache, scrathpad) for a specific application to reduce the energy consumption without loss of performance. We configure and compare the impact of three different memory architectures on the energy consumption. The first one is composed of main memory with cache, in the second architecture we find a main memory and scratchpad memory and in the last architecture we combine both cache and scratchpad with the main memory. We show the effectiveness of the last architecture and a saving about 35% in energy consumption.

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Index Terms

Energy aware memory architecture configuration
1. Hardware
  1. Integrated circuits
    1. Semiconductor memory
      1. Dynamic memory
  2. Robustness

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cover image ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News Volume 33, Issue 3

Special issue: MEDEA 2004 workshop

June 2005

74 pages

ISSN:0163-5964

DOI:10.1145/1101868

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MEDEA '04: Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications , systems and architecture
September 2004
62 pages
ISBN:9781450378192
DOI:10.1145/1152922
Conference Chairs:
Sandro Bartolini
University of Siena, Italy
,
Pierfrancesco Foglia
University of Pisa, Italy
,
Roberto Giorgi
University of Siena, Italy
,
Cosimo Antonio Prete
University of Pisa, Italy

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2011/138078
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