Practical Instruction Set Design and Compiler Retargetability Using Static Resource Models

  • Authors:
  • Q. Zhao;B. Mesman;T. Basten

  • Affiliations:
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Philips Research Laboratories, Prof. Holstlaan 4, NL-5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Optimizing power consumption at high-level is a criticalstep towards power-efficient digital system designs. Thispaper addresses the power management problem byscheduling a given control-dominated data flow graph. Wediscuss delay and power issues with scheduling, andpropose an improvement algorithm for insertion of so-calledsoft edges which enable power optimization undertiming constraints. Power savings obtained by our approachon tested circuits range between 15% and 30% of the initialpower dissipation.