CACTI-IO
Norman Paul Jouppi, Andrew B. Kahng, Naveen Muralimanohar, Vaishnav Srinivas · 2012
We describe CACTI-IO, an extension to CACTI [4] that includes power, area and timing models for the IO and PHY of the off-chip memory interface for various server and mobile configurations. CACTI-IO enables design space exploration of the off-chip IO along with the DRAM and cache parameters. We describe the models added and three case studies that use CACTI-IO to study the tradeoffs between memory capacity, bandwidth and power.