Title :
Novel formulations for low-power binding of function units in high-level synthesis
Author :
Kumar, Ashok ; Bayoumi, Magdy
Author_Institution :
Center for Adv. Comput. Studies, Southwestern Louisiana Univ., Lafayette, LA, USA
Abstract :
This paper considers minimizing the switchings of the function units through new binding formulations. Switching activities on the function units are gathered through profiling the data-flow graph of the design at hand. Several thousand random input streams are generated and used for such profiling. The switching activities are obtained and stored in a matrix. The problem of binding the function units for low power is then formulated and solved by using the proposed methods
Keywords :
high level synthesis; minimisation of switching nets; power consumption; data-flow graph profiling; function unit binding; function unit switching minimization; high-level synthesis; low-power binding; random input stream generation; switching activities matrix; Circuits; Clocks; Energy consumption; Guidelines; High level synthesis; Portable computers; Power dissipation; Processor scheduling; Resource management; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design, 1999. (ICCD '99) International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0406-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1999.808560
