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Title | ||
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Energy impact in the design space exploration of loop buffer schemes in embedded systems |
Abstract | ||
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The reduction of the energy consumption in the domain of the embedded systems is becoming the most important design goal due to the increasing use of battery powered consumer devices. Previous research has pointed out the instruction memory organisation as one of the major sources of energy consumption of the embedded systems. Due to this fact, the introduction of any enhancement in this component of the system becomes crucial in order to decrease this energy bottleneck. The purpose of this paper is to present a highlevel energy analysis of the loop buffer schemes that exist in the embedded systems. The crucial energy analysis that is presented in this paper not only proposes a method to evaluate different loop buffer schemes for a certain application, but also guides embedded systems designers to make the correct decision in the trade-offs that exist between the energy budget, the required performance, and the area cost of the embedded system. Experimental results used in this analysis show that, the search of energy savings (up to 76%) has to take into account the performance penalty, the area cost, and the impact of the implementation technology in order to choose the most suitable enhancement that has to be introduced in the instruction memory organisation from the point of view of the energy consumption. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2013.6673278 | VLSI-SOC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
instruction memory organisation,buffer storage,energy saving,design space exploration,high-level energy analysis,embedded system,energy consumption,battery powered consumer device,embedded systems,energy impact,loop buffer scheme | Bottleneck,Energy budget,Energy analysis,Engineering,Battery (electricity),Memory organisation,Energy consumption,Design space exploration,Embedded system | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 6 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Artés | 1 | 29 | 4.16 |
| José Luis Ayala | 2 | 6 | 3.55 |
| Robert Fasthuber | 3 | 20 | 4.26 |
| Praveen Raghavan | 4 | 308 | 47.48 |
| Francky Catthoor | 5 | 3932 | 423.30 |