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Caches consume a significant amount of energy in modern microprocessors. To design an energy-efficient microprocessor, it is important to optimize cache energy consumption. This paper examines performance and power trade-offs in cache designs and the effectiveness of energy reduction for several novel cache design techniques targeted for low power. 1
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Su et al. (1995) studied this question.