Energy Aware Software

  • Authors:
  • Amit Sinha;Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '00 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on VLSI Design
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The concept of energy aware software is introduced. A simple energy model for software is presented that separates the switching and leakage components and predicts its total energy consumption with less than 5% error for a set of benchmark programs. The experiments have been performed on the StrongARM SA-1100 microprocessor. A mathematical model for the total leakage current has also been proposed and it has been shown that they can account for about 10% of the energy dissipation for low threshold voltage microprocessors and, assuming continuous operation, the leakage energy fraction gets significantly higher for lower duty cycle.