Energy is an increasingly important consideration in memory system design. Although caches can save energy in several ways, such as by decreasing execution time and reducing the number of main memory accesses, they also ...

With the growing focus on energy efficiency, it is important to find ways to reduce energy without sacrificing performance. The L1 data cache is a significant contributor to processor energy consumption. We advocate treating ...

Specialization and accelerators are an effective way to address the slowdown of Dennard scaling. For a family of accelerators like DySER, NPU, CE, and SSE acceleration that rely on a high performance processor to interface ...