Compiler-assisted instruction decoder energy optimization for clustered VLIW architectures

Nagpal, Rahul and Srikant, YN (2007) Compiler-assisted instruction decoder energy optimization for clustered VLIW architectures. In: 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), DEC 18-21, 2007, Goa.

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Abstract

Traditionally, an instruction decoder is designed as a monolithic structure that inhibit the leakage energy optimization. In this paper, we consider a split instruction decoder that enable the leakage energy optimization. We also propose a compiler scheduling algorithm that exploits instruction slack to increase the simultaneous active and idle duration in instruction decoder. The proposed compiler-assisted scheme obtains a further 14.5% reduction of energy consumption of instruction decoder over a hardware-only scheme for a VLIW architecture. The benefits are 17.3% and 18.7% in the context of a 2-clustered and a 4-clustered VLIW architecture respectively.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	25 Mar 2010 06:07
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:57
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26331

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