Way-tracking set-associative caches

作者:Kang J*; Lee S; Lee I
来源:Electronics Letters, 2010, 46(22): 1497-1498.
DOI:10.1049/el.2010.8526

摘要

A method for reducing the power consumption of set-associative caches is proposed. The method tracks the way information of all cache blocks and allows access of only those ways that potentially contain the requested block. When used for a 512KB eight-way 64B-block L2 cache, the method reduces the energy consumption by 79%.

  • 出版日期2010-10-28