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Phased set associative cache design for reduced power consumption

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Publisher : Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology

Source : Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009, Beijing, p.551-556 (2009)

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ISBN : 9781424445196

Keywords : Average energy, Cache accessing technique and HDL, Computer science, Data access, Electric power utilization, Information technology, Power Consumption, Power reductions, Reduced power consumption, Set associative, Set associative cache, Two phasis, Verilog HDL

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Engineering

Center : Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs

Department : Electronics and Communication

Year : 2009

Abstract :

In this paper, improvised versions of the set associative cache accessing technique have been proposed to reduce the power consumption. In phased cache the cacheaccess process is divided into two phases. In the first phase all the tag in the set are examined in parallel. In the next phase, if there is a hit, then a data access is performed for the hit way. The average energy consumption is reduced as we are not accessing the data together with tag in each phase. Behavioral implementation of these mechanisms was carried out using Verilog HDL. Synthesis of the design was done in Xilinx 10.1. The Xilinx Xpower analyzer is used to find the power consumption. The results show an average of 41% reduction in power consumption as compared to the conventional sequential set associative cache and an average of 21% power reduction as compared to conventional parallel set associative cache architecture. © 2009 IEEE.

Cite this Research Publication : Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Deepu, K. B., Joseph, I. P., and Vikram, V., “Phased Set Associative Cache Design For Reduced Power Consumption”, in Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009, Beijing, 2009, pp. 551-556

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