• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.11-19
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• 2013

Most modern computer systems employ cache systems in order to alleviate the access time gap between processor and memory system. The power dissipated by the cache systems becomes a significant part of the total power dissipated by whole microprocessor chip. Therefore, power reduction in the cache system becomes one of the important issues. Partial tag cache is the system for the least power consumption. The main power reduction for this method is due to the use of small partial tag matching, not full tag matching. In this paper, we first analyze the previous regular partial tag cache systems and propose a new address matching mechanism by using locality buffer and address compression. In simulation results, the proposed model shows 18% power reduction in average, still providing same performance level, compared to regular cache.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.3-4
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• 2009

내장형 시스템 시장의 확대는 시스템의 전체 성능 향상뿐만 아니라 전력 소모량을 줄이는 것도 고려하게 만들었다. 특히 시스템 내부적으로 많은 비중을 차지하는 캐시 시스템의 전력 소모량을 줄이는 것은 내장형 시스템 설계의 중요한 주제 가운데 하나로 부각 되었다. 본 논문에서는 태그 압축을 통한 저전력 캐시의 구현을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 지역성이 높은 내장형 응용 프로그램의 특징을 활용한 것으로, 지역 버퍼와 태그 압축 비트를 활용하는 새로운 형태의 저전력 캐시용 태그 압축 기법이다. 모의실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안된 기법은 시스템의 전체적인 성능 감소 없이, 기존 모델 대비 최대 27%, 평균 18%의 캐시 에너지 감소를 보였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.1 s.105
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• pp.55-62
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• 2007

Uptime of embedded processors for mobile devices are dependent on battery consumption. Especially the large portion of power consumption is known to be due to cache management in embedded processors. This paper proposes an energy efficient data cache structure for high performance embedded processors. High performance prefetching data cache issues prefetching instructions before issuing demand-fetch instructions based on reference predictions. These prefetching instruction bring reduction on memory delay by improving cache hit ratio, but on the other hand those increase energy consumption in proportion to the number of prefetching instructions. In this paper, we adopt tag history table on prefetching data cache for reducing energy consumption by minimizing parallel tag comparison. Experimental results show the proposed data cache improves performance on energy consumption as well as memory delay.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

Since data caches used in modern embedded processors consume significant fraction of total processor power up to 40%, embedded processors need power-efficient high performance data caches. This paper proposes a prefetching data cache structure which pursuing low power consumption. We added tag history table on existing data cache structure which includes hardware unit for data prefetching so that reduce the number of parallel lookup on tag memory. This strategic cache structure remarkably reduces power consumption for parallel tag lookup. Experimental results show that the proposed cache architecture induce low power consumption while maintain the same cache performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.24-27
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• 2007

주기억 색인 기법인 Tmr-트리가 R-트리에 비해서 삽입시간이 오래 걸린다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문은 L2 캐시를 최대한 활용하여 기존 Tmr-트리의 장점을 가지는 새로운 CSTmr-트리(Cache Sensitive Tmr-트리)구조를 제안하고, 이 구조에 삽입, 삭제 등의 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 구조와 알고리즘을 다른 인덱스 구조와 비교하여 CSTmr-트리의 우수성을 보인다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.771-776
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• 2023

Scratchpad memory is a software-controlled on-chip memory designed and used to mitigate the disadvantages of existing cache memories. Existing cache memories have TAG-related hardware control logic, so users cannot directly control cache misses, and their sizes are large and energy consumption is relatively high. Scratchpad memory has advantages in terms of size and energy consumption because it eliminates such hardware overhead, but there is a burden on software to manage data. In this study, data management techniques of scratchpad memory were classified and examined, and ways to maximize the advantages were discussed.