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Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02)
Low-Power Data Memory Communication for Application-Specific Embedded Processors
Kyoto, Japan
October 02-October 04
ISBN: 1-58113-576-9
Alex Orailoglu, University of California, San Diego
Peter Petrov, University of California, San Diego
We propose a novel customization methodology for power reduction on the communication link between an embedded processor and its data memory. We target the address bus and show how by utilizing application information about the memory references in the data intensive program loops, a power efficient address communication protocol can be established between the processor core and the data memory. The data memory controller thus generates the addresses for the various data streams with minimal run-time information from the processor engine, achieving significant power reductions on the address bus. An efficient reprogrammable hardware support is presented for enabling the proposed methodology. The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the approach for a set of data intensive applications.
Index Terms:
energy optimization, onchip memory
Citation:
Alex Orailoglu, Peter Petrov, "Low-Power Data Memory Communication for Application-Specific Embedded Processors," isss, pp.219-224, Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02), 2002
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