| Presentation | 2012-08-02 A Variation-Aware Low-Voltage Set-Associative Cache with Mixed-Associativity Jinwook Jung, Yohei Nakata, Shunsuke Okumura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Masahiko Yoshimoto, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In this paper, we propose the mixed associativity scheme using 7T/14T SRAM, which can reduce the minimum operating voltage of the entire cache efficiently. The proposed mixed associativity scheme allows associativities in each index to be various. It exploits the characteristics of manufacturing-induced defects in memory structures and the recovery feature of 7T/14T SRAM. The proposed scheme has no additional cycle penalty. According to our measurement results, the proposed scheme can reduce the minimum operating voltage by 80mV. Area estimation results show that the area overhead of the proposed cache scheme is 5.22% in 64-KB cache 8-way set-associative cache. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Cache / SRAM / Low-voltage operation / Mixed-associativity |
| Paper # | SDM2012-63,ICD2012-31 |
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| Conference Date | 2012/7/26(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | A Variation-Aware Low-Voltage Set-Associative Cache with Mixed-Associativity |
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| Keyword(1) | Cache |
| Keyword(2) | SRAM |
| Keyword(3) | Low-voltage operation |
| Keyword(4) | Mixed-associativity |
| 1st Author's Name | Jinwook Jung |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yohei Nakata |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Shunsuke Okumura |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University |
| 4th Author's Name | Hiroshi Kawaguchi |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University |
| 5th Author's Name | Masahiko Yoshimoto |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University:Japan Science and Technology agency CREST |
| Date | 2012-08-02 |
| Paper # | SDM2012-63,ICD2012-31 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | 170 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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