Value compression for efficient computation

  • Authors:
  • Ramon Canal;Antonio González;James E. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Dept of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Dept. of Electrical & Computing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'05 Proceedings of the 11th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A processor's energy consumption can be reduced by compressing values (data and addresses) that flow through a processor pipeline and gating off portions of data path elements that would otherwise be used for computing non-significant bits. An approach for compressing all values running through a processor is proposed and evaluated. For the SpecInt2000 benchmarks the best compression method achieves energy savings of more than 20 percent and a peak power reduction of 18 percent.