Low-power architectural synthesis and the impact of exploiting locality

Energy-efficient processor design is becoming more and more important with technology scaling and with high performance requirements. Supply-voltage scaling is an efficient way to reduce energy by lowering the operating voltage and the clock frequency ...

Due to the frequent access, the instruction cache is usually a major power consumer. Based on the frequent opcode locality, where a small number of opcodes often account for a large portion of instruction executions, we propose a power-efficient ...

Modern cache designs exploit spatial locality by fetching large blocks of data called cache lines on a cache miss. Subsequent references to words within the same cache line result in cache hits. Although this approach benefits from spatial locality, ...