The implementation and evaluation of a low-power clock distribution network based on EPIC

  • Authors:
  • Rong Ji;Xianjun Zeng;Liang Chen;Junfeng Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China;School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China;School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China;School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

  • Venue:
  • NPC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The multiply clock domain (MCD) technique is a novel technique to compromising between synchronous systems and asynchronous systems to reduce the power. However, most present studies of MCD are based on superscalar architectures. In this paper, MCDE, a MCD technique based on explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC) architecture is designed and implemented to reduce the power of clock distribution network. In addition, a series of experiments have been done to evaluate it. The result of the experiments show that, using a MCDE clock network microarchitecture with a fine-grained adaptive dynamic adjustment algorithm, can effectively decrease the microprocessor power by 40%, compared with the original EPIC clock network microarchitecture.