Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '98)
Instruction Scheduling for Power Reduction in Processor-Based System Design
Paris, France
February 23-February 26
ISBN: 0-8186-8359-7
This paper propose an instruction scheduling technique to reduce power consumed for off-chip driving. The technique minimizes the switching activity of a data bus between an on-chip cache and a main memory when instruction cache misses occur. The scheduling problem is formulated and a scheduling algorithm is also presented. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.
Index Terms:
Low-Power Design, Instruction Scheduling, Caches
Citation:
Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Tohru Ishihara, Akihiko Inoue, Hiroto Yasuura, "Instruction Scheduling for Power Reduction in Processor-Based System Design," date, pp.855, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '98), 1998