Power-conscious configuration cache structure and code mapping for coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture

  • Authors:
  • Yoonjin Kim;Ilhyun Park;Kiyoung Choi;Yunheung Paek

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture aims to achieve both performance and flexibility. However, power consumption is no less important for the reconfigurable architecture to be used as a competitive processing core in embedded systems. In this paper, we show how power is consumed in a typical coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture. Based on the power breakdown data, we suggest a power-conscious configuration cache structure and code mapping technique, which reduce power consumption without performance degradation. Experimental results show that the proposed approach saves much power even with reduced configuration cache size.