Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '00)
A Power Reduction Technique with Object Code Merging for Application Specific Embedded Processors
Paris, France
March 27-March 30
ISBN: 0-7695-0537-6
In this paper, a power reduction technique which merges frequently executed sequences of object codes into a set of single instructions is proposed. An instruction decompressor restores the merged sequence of object codes before decoding the object codes. A ROM implements the decompressor. In many programs, only a few sequences of object codes are frequently executed. Therefore, merging these frequently executed sequences into a single instructions leads to a significant energy reduction. Our experiments with actual read only memory (ROM) modules and some benchmark program demonstrate significant energy reductions up to more than 65% at best case over a instruction memory without the object code merging.
Citation:
T. Ishihara, H. Yasuura, "A Power Reduction Technique with Object Code Merging for Application Specific Embedded Processors," date, pp.617, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE '00), 2000