Implementation and evaluation of an on-demand parameter-passing strategy for reducing energy

Author

Kandemir, M. ; Kolcu, I. ; Zhang, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

2003

Firstpage

1058

Lastpage

1063

Abstract

In this paper, we present an energy-aware parameter-passing strategy called on-demand parameter-passing. The objective of this strategy is to eliminate redundant actual parameter evaluations if the corresponding formal parameter in a subroutine is not used during execution. This on-demand parameter-passing is expected to be very successful in reducing energy consumption of large, multi-routine embedded applications at the expense of a slight implementation complexity.

Keywords

embedded systems; low-power electronics; optimising compilers; program control structures; subroutines; energy consumption reduction; energy-aware parameter-passing strategy; multiroutine embedded applications; on-demand parameter-passing strategy; optimizing compiler; programming language support; redundant parameter evaluation reduction; subroutine execution; Algorithms; Application software; Circuits; Computer languages; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Hardware; Optimizing compilers; Program processors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2003

ISSN

1530-1591

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1870-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DATE.2003.1253744

Filename

1253744