Profile driven schemes for energy-sensitive cache hierarchy

• Main Author: Santanu Kumar Dash
• Other Authors: Thambipillai Srikanthan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Memory structures
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/19286
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the advent of mobile and handheld devices, power consumption in embedded systems has become a key design issue. Of the components that consume significant amounts of power in an embedded system, cache memories have been reported to consume in excess of 40% of the total power in typical high end...