Data replication in banked DRAMs for reducing energy consumption

Ozcan Ozturk, Mahmut Kandemir

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Abstract

Due to continuously increasing importance of memory systems, there have been a plethora of studies in the last decade to improve their performance and power consumption behavior. Banked memories have been the focus of several recent efforts that attempt to reduce power consumption and have been studied from both the hardware and software angles. One of the common assumptions made implicitly by all these prior efforts is that each data block has only a single copy in the banked memory system. This assumption, while preferable from the viewpoint of reducing the total memory footprint of program data, may cause unnecessary power consumption in the context of banked memories. Motivated by this observation, this paper proposes and evaluates a novel power management scheme for balanced memories based on data replication. The idea behind our approach is to use replication to prevent re-activating an otherwise idle memory bank. To achieve this, we implemented both a heuristic and an ILP based solution to the data placement and replication problem in a banked architecture.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2006
Pages551-556
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2006
Event7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2006 - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Mar 27 2006Mar 29 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED
ISSN (Print)1948-3287
ISSN (Electronic)1948-3295

Other

Other7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period3/27/063/29/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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