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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
Neeraj Goel, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Anshul Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Preeti Ranjan Panda, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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
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