Title :
ALBORZ: Address Level Bus Power Optimization
Author :
Aghaghiri, Yazdan ; Fallah, Farzan ; Pedram, Massoud
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we introduce a new low power address bus encoding technique, and the resulting code, named ALBORZ. The ALBORZ code is constructed based on transition signaling the limited-weight codes and, with enhancements to make it adaptive and irredundant, results in up to 89% reduction in the instruction bus switching activity, at the expense of a small area overhead.
Keywords :
circuit CAD; circuit optimisation; codes; encoding; integrated circuit design; logic CAD; low-power electronics; ALBORZ code; address level bus power optimization; instruction bus switching activity reduction; limited-weight codes; low power address bus encoding technique; transition signaling; Capacitance; Decoding; Electronic switching systems; Encoding; Energy consumption; Hamming distance; Independent component analysis; Logic circuits; Switching circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Quality Electronic Design, 2002. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1561-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISQED.2002.996790
