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TDC: Tagless DRAM cache
Published in IEEE Computer Society
2018
Volume: 2018-July
   
Pages: 88 - 93
Abstract
Advancements in 3D-stacking technology lead to the usage of stacked DRAM as a last level cache. DRAM caches present multiple design challenges. DRAM cache tag management overhead is one of them because of large area requirement and high access time for look-up. Numerous techniques have been proposed to handle the challenges involved with the DRAM caches. We consider a design choice wherein the tag array storage is removed completely. In this work, we propose a Tagless DRAM Cache (TDC), that completely removes tag array from the DRAM cache and instead, uses the tag-Array of the SRAM last level cache (LLC) along with DRAM cache way indices to locate data in the DRAM cache. Experimental evaluation, considering 4-core configuration, shows that TDC achieves a speedup of 9.97% when compared to baseline. Further, TDC shows greater promise by providing reduction in average power consumption by 11.22% and average SRAM LLC miss penalty by 30.8%. © 2018 IEEE.
About the journal
JournalData powered by TypesetProceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
PublisherData powered by TypesetIEEE Computer Society
ISSN21593469
Open AccessNo
Concepts (12)
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    Dynamic random access storage
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    Static random access storage
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    Vlsi circuits
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    3D STACKING TECHNOLOGY
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    CACHE ORGANIZATION
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    Design challenges
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    Experimental evaluation
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    Last-level caches
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    Lastlevel caches (llc)
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    LOW POWER
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    TAGLESS CACHE
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    Integrated circuit design