Managing cache coherency in a data processing apparatus

E Özer, SD Biles, SA Ford - US Patent 7,937,535, 2011 - Google Patents
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Bi-modal dram cache: Improving hit rate, hit latency and bandwidth

N Gulur, M Mehendale, R Manikantan… - 2014 47th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present Bi-Modal Cache-a flexible stacked DRAM cache organization
which simultaneously achieves several objectives:(i) improved cache hit ratio,(ii) moving the …

Monitoring values of signals within an integrated circuit

SA Ford, A Reid - US Patent 8,185,724, 2012 - Google Patents
An integrated circuit, and method of reviewing values of one or more signals occurring within
that integrated circuit, are provided. The integrated circuit comprises processing logic for …

Cache miss detection in a data processing apparatus

M Ghosh, E Özer, SD Biles - US Patent 8,099,556, 2012 - Google Patents
A data processing apparatus and method are provided for detecting cache misses. The data
processing apparatus has processing logic for executing a plurality of program threads, and …

An energy-efficient L2 cache architecture using way tag information under write-through policy

J Dai, L Wang - IEEE transactions on very large scale …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many high-performance microprocessors employ cache write-through policy for
performance improvement and at the same time achieving good tolerance to soft errors in on …

Exploiting early tag access for reducing l1 data cache energy in embedded processors

J Dai, M Guan, L Wang - … on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a new cache design technique, referred to as early tag access
(ETA) cache, to improve the energy efficiency of data caches in embedded processors. The …

A flexible multi-port caching scheme for reconfigurable platforms

SS Ang, G Constantinides, P Cheung, W Luk - … and Applications: Second …, 2006 - Springer
Memory accesses contribute sunstantially to aggregate system delays. It is critical for
designers to ensure that the memory subsystem is designed efficiently, and much work has …

SRAM Operations and Simulation Methodologies at Bitcell, Subarray, and Macro Levels

HH Liu, F Catthoor - Circuit-Technology Co-Optimization of SRAM Design …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter presents a comprehensive simulation framework for evaluating margin, power,
performance, and area (PPA) in deeply scaled SRAM designs. The framework, covering …

Bi-modal dram cache: A scalable and effective die-stacked dram cache

N Gulur, M Mehendale, R Manikantan… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present Bi-Modal Cache-a flexible stacked DRAM cache organization
which simultaneously achieves several objectives:(i) improved cache hit ratio,(ii) moving the …

Write buffer-oriented energy reduction in the L1 data cache for embedded systems

J Lee, S Kim - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In resource-constrained embedded systems, on-chip cache memories play an important role
in both performance and energy consumption. In contrast to read operations, scant regard …