Power Exploration for Dynamic Data Types through Virtual Memory Management Refinement (1998)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design |
| Citations: | 10 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Silva98powerexploration,
author = {Julio L. Da Silva and Jr and Francky Catthoor and Diederik Verkest and Hugo De Man},
title = {Power Exploration for Dynamic Data Types through Virtual Memory Management Refinement},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design},
year = {1998},
pages = {311--316},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
In this paper we present our novel power exploration methodology for applications with dynamic data types. Our methodology is crucial to obtain effective solutions in an embedded (HW or SW) processor context. The contributions are twofold. First we define the complete search space for Virtual Memory Management (VMM) mechanisms in a structured way with orthogonal decision trees. Secondly we present our systematic methodology for exploration of the maximal power that takes into account characteristics of the application to heavily prune the search space guiding the choices of a VMM mechanism. Finally we demonstrate for two industrial examples that power can vary considerably depending on the VMM chosen. Moreover these experiments show the effectiveness of our exploration methodology. 1 Introduction We target applications that require manipulation of large amounts of data that are dynamically created and destroyed at run time, such as protocol processing applications. These applications...
