20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07) Power Reduction in VLIW Processor with Compiler Driven Bypass Network Bangalore, India January 06-January 10 ISBN: 0-7695-2762-0
With the increase in issue width, bypass control of a processor become more complex. Also, in a processor, operands are read both from register file as well as from bypass. For a multi-port register file, read/write energy is much more than that of single port register file. Both redundant register read/write and bypass control area can be reduced with compiler hints for register bypass. In this work we suggest a innovative way to represent compiler bypass hints that serve both these motivations. Further, bypass hints are used in effective design of multi-stage bypass network. Experiments on mediabench benchmarks show that by using our approach, (i) register file energy savings can be as as much as 60% (ii) and synthesis of VLIW core saves 2-4% of the core area.
Citation:
Neeraj Goel, Anshul Kumar, Preeti Ranjan Panda, "Power Reduction in VLIW Processor with Compiler Driven Bypass Network," vlsid, pp.233-238, 20th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 6th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID'07), 2007 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||