
Chapter 6
Optimization of the Dynamic Energy
Consumption and Signal Mapping in
Hierarchical Memory Organizations
Florin Balasa
American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
Ilie I. Luican
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington
Hongwei Zhu
ARM, Inc., Sunnyvale, California
Doru V. Nasui
American International Radio, Inc., Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Contents
6.1 Introduction ..........................................................195
6.2 Energy-Aware Signal Assignment to the Memory Layers ...........199
6.3 Signal-to-Memory Mapping Techniques ..............................206
6.3.1 Previous mapping models exemplified ........................208
6.3.2 Exploiting ...