A CAM with mixed serial-parallel comparison for use in low energy caches.

A CAM with mixed serial-parallel comparison for use in low energy caches.

A novel, low-energy content addressable memory (CAM) structure is presented which achieves an approximately four-fold improvement in energy per access, compared to a standard parallel CAM, when used as tag storage for caches. It exploits the address patterns commonly found in application programs, w...

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Publicado en:IEEE Transactions on VLSI systems 12, 3 (2004).
Autor Principal: Efthymiou, A.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Subjects:
Address patterns.
Application programs.
Asynchronous design.
Caches.
Content addressable memory design.
Low power design.
Parallel operating mode.
Serial-parallel CAM design.
Tag mismatches.
Tag storage.