Research Article

A Workload-Adaptive and Reconfigurable Bus Architecture for Multicore Processors

Table 2

Core Parameters.

Parameter Value

Processor cores Alpha 21264
2-issue

L1 D-Cache 32 KB
2-way set associative, 1-cycle hit latency
64-byte cache lines, 10 MSHRs

L1 I-Cache 64 KB
2-way set associative, 1-cycle hit latency
64-byte cache lines, 10 MSHRs

L2 Cache 1 MB
8-way set associative
5-cycle latency
64-byte cache lines, 20 MSHRs

Shared L3 Cache 36 MB
16-way set associative
40-cycle latency
64-byte cache lines, 60 MSHRs

Physical memory 512 MB
200-cycle latency