1. Evolution of application-specific cache mappings.
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Ho, Nam, Kaufmann, Paul, and Platzner, Marco
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MULTICORE processors , *CACHE memory , *ENERGY consumption , *GENETIC programming - Abstract
Reconfigurable caches offer an intriguing opportunity to tailor cache behavior to applications for better run-times and energy consumptions. While one may adapt structural cache parameters such as cache and block sizes, we adapt the memory-address-to-cache-index mapping function to the needs of an application. Using a LEON3 embedded multi-core processor with reconfigurable cache mappings, a metaheuristic search procedure, and MiBench applications, we show in this work how to accurately compare non-deterministic performances of applications and how to use this information to implement an optimization procedure that evolves application-specific cache mappings for the LEON3 multi-core processor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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