A power-aware technique for functional units in high-performance processors

Resumen

This paper presents a hardware technique to reduce the static and dynamic power consumption in functional units of a 64-bit superscalar processor. Our approach is based on substituting some of the 64-bit power-hungry adders by others with 32-bit lower power-consumption adders, and modifying the protocol in order to issue as much instructions as possible to those low power-consumption units incurring a negligible performance penalty. Our technique saves between 14.7% and a 50% of the power-consumption in the adders which is between 6.1% and a 20% of power-consumption in the execution units. This reduction is important because it can avoid the creation of a hot spot on the functional units

Publicación
9textsuperscriptth EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design (DSD'06)
J. Manuel Colmenar
J. Manuel Colmenar
Catedrático de Universidad

Mis intereses de investigación se centran en las metaheurísticas aplicadas a problemas de optimización. He trabajado en diferentes problemas de optimización combinatoria aplicando algoritmos trajectoriales como GRASP o VNS. Además, estoy muy interesado en las aplicaciones de la Evolución Gramatical, específicamente en el dominio de los modelos y la predicción, como alternativa a los enfoques de aprendizaje automático.