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A Content Aware Integer Register File Organization
M?nchen, Germany June 19-June 23
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISCA.2004.131078431st Annual International Symposium o ...
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Rub?n Gonz?lez, Universitat Polit?nica de Catalunya
Adri? Cristal, Universitat Polit?nica de Catalunya
Daniel Ortega, HP Labs Barcelona
Alexander Veidenbaum, University of California, Irvine
Mateo Valero, Universitat Polit?nica de Catalunya
A register file is a critical component of a modern superscalar processor. It has a large number of entries and read/write ports in order to enable high levels of instruction parallelism. As a result, the register file's area, access time, and energy consumption increase dramatically, significantly affecting the overall superscalar processor's performance and energy consumption. This is especially true in 64-bit processors.
This paper presents a new integer register file organization, which reduces energy consumption, area, and access time of the register file with a minimal effect on overall IPC. This is accomplished by expoiting a new concept, partial value locality, which is defined as occurence of mutiple live value instances identical in a subset of their bits. A possible implementation of the new register file is described and shown to obtain proposed optimized register file designs. Overall, an energy reduction of over 50%, a 18% decreas in area, and a 15% reduction in the access time are achieved in the new register file. The energy and area savings are achieved with a 1.7% reduction in IPC for integer applications and a negligible 0.3% in numerical applications, assuming the same clock frequency. A performance increase of up to 13% is possible if the clcok frequency can be increases due to a reduction in the register file access time. This approach enables other, very promising optimizations, three of which are outlined in the paper.
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Rub?n Gonz?lez, Adri? Cristal, Daniel Ortega, Alexander Veidenbaum, Mateo Valero, "A Content Aware Integer Register File Organization," isca, pp.314, 31st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'04), 2004
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