Cache Energy Optimization Techniques for Modern Processors : 9783639517361 : 23 Aug 2013 : Recent years have witnessed a huge increase in the power consumption of computing systems ranging from embedded systems to supercomputers. Power issues now drive major design decisions in businesses and large-scale enterprises and hence, the knowledge of how power concerns influence processor architecture is important for both researchers and business policy-makers. This book discusses basic concepts, algorithms and architectures for cache energy optimization in single-core and multi-core systems, multitasking, real-time and QoS systems. It presents dynamic reconfiguration based energy saving techniques for caches designed with both conventional SRAM devices and emerging non-volatile devices such as STT-RAM. It also provides both qualitative and quantitative comparison with state-of-the-art cache energy saving techniques to stimulate the readers to take the frontiers beyond what has been present