Instruction scheduling for power reduction in processor-based system design

  • Authors:
  • H. Tomiyama;T. Ishihara;A. Inoue;H. Yasuura

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816 Japan;Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816 Japan;Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816 Japan;Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816 Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper propose an instruction scheduling technique to reduce power consumed for off-chip driving. The technique minimizes the switching activity of a data bus between an on-chip cache and a main memory when instruction cache misses occur. The scheduling problem is formulated and a scheduling algorithm is also presented. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.