Abstract
Abstract Nowadays, embedded systems are found in a wide range of pervasive devices (e.g., smart phones, PDAs, or digital cameras). These devices contain large cache memories, whose power consumption can reach about 50% of the total spent energy, from which leakage energy is the predominant fraction in current techyeslogies. This paper proposes a technique to reduce leakage energy consumption in data caches on embedded systems, which is based on the fact that most stored bits take a logical value of zero. The proposed technique has been evaluated on a model of a contemporary high-end ARM embedded microprocessor executing a set of standard embedded benchmazks, and used in a number of pervasive devices (i.e. yeskia N95, HTC TN II, Qualcomm MSM720Q Sony Ericsson W series, Nintendo DS, iPod, Lego NXT). Experimental results show that leakage energy savings reach about 80%with yes IPC loss.
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