DocumentCode :
351935
Title :
Instruction-level power estimation for embedded VLIW cores
Author :
Sami, M. ; Sciuto, D. ; Silvano, C. ; Zaccaria, V.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Elettronica e Inf., Politecnico di Milano, Italy
fYear :
2000
fDate :
5-5 May 2000
Firstpage :
34
Lastpage :
38
Abstract :
In this paper, a power estimation methodology operating at the instruction-level is proposed. The methodology is tightly related to the characteristics of the system architecture, mainly in terms of one or more target processors, the memory sub-system, the system-level buses and the coprocessors. In this system-level framework, our main goal is to define a power model for CPU cores at the instruction level. First, the proposed power model deals with a general five-stage pipeline processor architecture, then, the model is extended to VLIW processors. The derivation of a VLIW instruction-level power model results to be intractable from the point of view of spatial complexity (which grows exponentially w.r.t. the number of possible operations in the ISA). In order to tackle this complexity, a new kind of simplification, based on the original concept of separability of processor functional units, is introduced. The proposed system-level methodology is the first step toward a more general framework to support the design of power-oriented applications through hardware/software co-design.
Keywords :
computational complexity; coprocessors; embedded systems; hardware-software codesign; instruction sets; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; coprocessors; embedded VLIW cores; hardware/software codesign; instruction-level power estimation; pipeline processor architecture; power estimation methodology; spatial complexity; system architecture; system-level buses; system-level framework; system-level methodology;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Hardware/Software Codesign, 2000. CODES 2000. Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-268-9
Type :
conf
Filename :
843703
Link To Document :
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