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12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'04)
Napa, California
April 20-April 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2230-0
Sumit Mohanty, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Duty cycle is the proportion of time a device is active. Therefore, based on the duty cycle specification, application (implemented using the device) execution can be modeled as alternate active and inactive phases. For FPGAs, during inactive phases, energy is dissipated due to leakage current and clock signal distribution. If the duration of the inactive phases is significantly larger than that of the active phases, optimizing energy dissipation during inactive phases contributes significantly towards the overall energy efficiency. We present a design tool for the evaluation of various optimization techniques such as shutting down FPGAs, transitioning to a low power state, or leaving as it is to minimize overall energy dissipation. We illustrate the tool through energy efficient design of a target tracking application using FPGAs.
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Sumit Mohanty, Viktor K. Prasanna, "Duty Cycle Aware Application Design using FPGAs," fccm, pp.338-339, 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'04), 2004
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