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Patrick

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi

I have got an SRAM Cache with 512 Cache Lines each 16 Bytes long with
associativity of 1.
For storing one bit I use a 6T RAM Cell. I used HotLeakage to estimate
the power consumption for an
0.07 process. The leakage cell_data for one 6T RAM Cell is calculated
by the leakage of an nmos plus the leakage of
a pmos transistor. The bitline leakage bitline_data for one cell is
the leakage of an nmos transistor. This value has then be multiplied
by the number of ports ->

power_leakage_cache = (cell_leakage + bitline_leakage *
number_of_ports) * 16(Bytes per Line) * 8 (Bits per Bytes) * 512
(cache Lines in total)

In other words, if all the cache would contain useful data in each
line I get the following results:

tagarray_power (W): 0.0021203
datarray_power (W): 0.00512072

In other words, one cache line consumes 10nW. Can this be possible or
did I miss something?

Cheers!
 
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