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ETAM++: Extended Transition Activity Measure for Low Power Address Bus Designs

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ETAM++: Extended Transition Activity Measure for Low Power Address Bus Designs
Interconnection networks in Systems-On-Chip begin to have a non-negligible impact on the power consumption of a whole system. This is because of increasing inter-wire capacitances that are in the same order of magnitude as intrinsic capacitances as far as deep-submicron designs are concerned. This trend has been recognized in recent research work. In this work, we present a physical model that takes into account inter-wire capacitances. Subsequently we propose a novel encoding scheme based on this physical model and targeted for address buses. We demonstrate that our encoding method improves power consumption by up to 62.5% and thus is exceeding all current approaches including our own previous one. In addition, the hardware of the bus encoding/decoding interfaces is compact to implement. We have conducted extensive simulations using SOC applications like, for example, an MPEGII encoder to evaluate the advantages of our approach.
Haris Lekatsas, Jörg Henkel
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Year 2002
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Authors Haris Lekatsas, Jörg Henkel
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