Power Issues with Embedded Systems

2/18/02


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Table of Contents

Power Issues with Embedded Systems

Plan for today

Next Generation Computing: Watts metrics?

Power Aware

Physics Revisited

Impact on embedded system

Opportunities for Low-Power

Some Power Models

Empirical

Information Theoretic

Signal Model Based

Software Power

Instruction Level Power Modeling

Power Dissipation in CMOS

Switching Power Dissipation

Low-Power Techniques

Short Circuit Power Dissipation

Leakage Power Dissipation

Static Power

Power – Delay Leverage

Algorithmic Technique PR

Architectural Technique PR

Logic and Circuit Level PR

Logic circuit PR

Logic circuit PR

Logic Circuit Reording

Logic circuit Clocking

Logic Circuit Clocking

Logic Circuit Pre-computation

Device Technology

Case Study: MCORE ISA

ISA & Power

ISA Power

Microarchitecture PR

Clock distribution

Two-level clock distribution

Adapting power consumption profile to application and system needs

IBM’s power simulator

UCI’s Copper Project framework for power management

Summary

Revisit Processor Architecture

Architecture Revisited

Architecture Revisited

ILP & Power

Delay Elimination & Power

Prediction & Speculation

More on speculation

Data speculation

Power Issues

Author: Rabi Mahapatra