• DocumentCode
    1352676
  • Title

    Loop-Directed Mothballing: Power Gating Execution Units Using Runtime Loop Analysis

  • Author

    Court, Craig A. ; Kelly, Paul H J

  • Author_Institution
    Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    29
  • Lastpage
    38
  • Abstract
    Power gating reduces static power by either disabling whole units or dynamically resizing units to meet application demands. The Loop-Directed Mothballing technique lets users power gate execution units by recording utilization of individual units in loops, and by power gating units according to two utilization thresholds. LDM offers on average 10.3 percent total power savings with low performance loss.
  • Keywords
    microprocessor chips; LDM; loop-directed mothballing; low performance loss; microprocessor technology; power gating execution units; power savings; recording utilization; runtime loop analysis; Benchmark testing; Degradation; Delay; Power demand; Power dissipation; Radiation detectors; Switches; Loop-Directed Mothballing; adaptable architectures; energy-aware systems; power gating;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MM.2011.92
  • Filename
    6051412
    • Link To Document
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