Title
High-Level Synthesis For Low Power Hardware Implementation Of Unscheduled Data-Dominated Circuits
Abstract
This paper presents a power estimation and optimization methodology in the early stage of highlevel synthesis for unscheduled data-dominated circuits. Leakage and dynamic power consumption for a module library are estimated using an automatic construction of switching tables and acquisition of input data statistics. The data profiles are explored to control both dynamic power and leakage power consumption. Dual threshold voltage (Vth) techniques are also utilized to reduce leakage power and energy consumption. Experiments are performed on a data-dominated test suite of 6 benchmarks for two technology generations, 180 nm and 45 nm. The results show that the leakage power will occupy a large part of the total power consumption in the future. For the future technology generation, our optimization technique achieves an average of 25.0% leakage power reduction and 10.5% total power reduction. With the assistance of a dual-Vth library, our technique achieves an average of 82.6% reduction for leakage power, and 40.2% reduction for the total power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1166/jolpe.2005.050
JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
High-Level Synthesis, Low Power Design, Optimization, Switching Activity, and VLSI Circuits
Computer architecture,High-level synthesis,Real-time computing,Engineering,Electronic circuit
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
3
1546-1998
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoyong Tang135220.62
Tianyi Jiang2796.50
Alex K. Jones357861.61
Prithviraj Banerjee42763337.99