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2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A low power front-end for embedded processors using a block-aware instruction set
Energy, power, and area efficiency are critical design concerns for embedded processors. Much of the energy of a typical embedded processor is consumed in the front-end since inst...
Ahmad Zmily, Christos Kozyrakis
ASPDAC
2004
ACM
129views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Instruction buffering exploration for low energy VLIWs with instruction clusters
— For multimedia applications, loop buffering is an efficient mechanism to reduce the power in the instruction memory of embedded processors. In particular, software controlled ...
Tom Vander Aa, Murali Jayapala, Francisco Barat, G...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
195views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Compiler-Based Register Name Adjustment for Low-Power Embedded Processors
We preseM an algorithm for compiler-driven regisrer mme adjustment with rhe main goal of power minimization on instruction fetch und mgisterjile access. In mosr instruction set ar...
Peter Petrov, Alex Orailoglu
IPPS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Selection of instruction set extensions for an FPGA embedded processor core
A design process is presented for the selection of a set of instruction set extensions for the PowerPC 405 processor that is embedded into the Xilinx Virtex Family of FPGAs. The i...
Brian F. Veale, John K. Antonio, Monte P. Tull, S....
GLVLSI
1998
IEEE
122views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Reducing Power Consumption of Dedicated Processors Through Instruction Set Encoding
With the increased clock frequency of modern, high-performance processors over 500 MHz, in some cases, limiting the power dissipation has become the most stringent design target. ...
Luca Benini, Giovanni De Micheli, Alberto Macii, E...