A five-fold increase in leakage current is predicted with each technology generation. While
Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) is known to reduce dynamic power consumption, it also …

Computer architecture forms the bridge between application needs and the capabilities of
the underlying technologies. As application demands change and technologies cross …

As technology evolves, power dissipation increases and cooling systems become more
complex and expensive. There are two main sources of power dissipation in a processor …

Apparatus for passively tracking expired data in a dynamic memory includes a time stamp
memory configurable for storing information relating to a refresh status of one or more …

In accordance With the aforementioned need, the present invention, in an illustrative
embodiment, is an improved dynamic memory architecture that utiliZes a unique passive …

The technological evolution has increased the number of transistors for a given die area
significantly and increased the switching speed from few MHz to GHz range. Such inversely …

Hybrid cache architectures have been proposed to mitigate the increasing on-chip power
dissipation through the exploitation of the emerging non-volatile memories (NVMs). To …

While set-associative caches incur fewer misses than direct-mapped caches, they typically
have slower hit times and higher power consumption, when multiple tag and data banks are …

Spin-Torque Transfer RAM (STT-RAM) is a promising candidate for SRAM replacement
because of its excellent features, such as fast read access, high density, low leakage power …

If current technology scaling trends hold, leakage power dissipation will soon become the
dominant source of power consumption. Caches, because of the fact that they account for …