Modern processors are using increasingly larger sized on-chip caches. Also, with each
CMOS technology generation, there has been a significant increase in their leakage energy …

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Recent research advocates large die-stacked DRAM caches in many core servers to break
the memory latency and bandwidth wall. To realize their full potential, die-stacked DRAM …

We study the hardware cost of implementing hash-tree based verification of untrusted
external memory by a high performance processor. This verification could enable …

The ever-increasing importance of main memory latency and bandwidth is pushing CMPs
towards caches with higher capacity and associativity. Associativity is typically improved by …

Energy consumption is a major concern in many embedded computing systems. Several
studies have shown that cache memories account for about 50% of the total energy …

On-chip cache has been playing an important role in achieving high memory performance
and low energy consumption, because it can reduce the number of access to slower and …

As processor speeds increase and memory latency becomes more critical, intelligent design
and management of secondary caches becomes increasingly important. The efficiency of …

Set-associative caches achieve low miss rates for typical applications but result in significant
energy dissipation. Set-associative caches minimize access time by probing all the data …

With the emergence of a plethora of embedded and portable applications, energy
dissipation has joined throughput, area, and accuracy/precision as a major design …