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Way Stealing: A Unified Data Cache and Architecturally Visible Storage for Instruction Set Extensions

Kluter, Theo
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Brisk, Philip
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Charbon, Edoardo  
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2014
Ieee Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems

Way Stealing is a simple architectural modification to a cache-based processor that increases the data bandwidth to and from application-specific instruction set extensions (ISEs), which increase performance and reduce energy consumption. Way Stealing offers higher bandwidth than interfacing the ISEs the processor's register file, and eliminates the need to allocate separate memories called architecturally visible storage (AVS) that are dedicated to the ISEs, and to ensure coherence between the AVS memories and the processor's data cache. Our results show that Way Stealing is competitive in terms of performance and energy consumption with other techniques that use AVS memories in conjunction with a data cache.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/Tvlsi.2012.2236689
Web of Science ID

WOS:000329067400006

Author(s)
Kluter, Theo
Brisk, Philip
Charbon, Edoardo  
Ienne, Paolo  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems
Volume

22

Issue

1

Start page

62

End page

75

Subjects

Architecturally visible storage (AVS)

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customizable processor

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data cache

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instruction set extension (ISE)

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Way Stealing

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February 17, 2014
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