An energy-aware exploration approach based on open software environment

Abstract

In this work it is presented an automated method for tuning memory hierarchy to embedded applications in order to reduce energy consumption. Detailed studies were performed on TCaT heuristic in order to obtain a new exploration approach. Experiments show a reduction of approximately 4 times in the energy consumption by using our heuristic, considering two-level caches. An open software environment, based on SystemC, to explore architectures aiming energy consumption on cache memory hierarchy, has been extended. MediaBench benchmark has been used.