Title :
Optimizing bus energy consumption of on-chip multiprocessors using frequent values
Author :
Liu, Chun ; Sivasubramaniam, Anand ; Kandemir, Mahmut
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
Chip multiprocessors (CMP) are a convenient way of leveraging from the technological trends to build high-end and embedded systems that are performance and power efficient, while exhibiting attractive properties such as scalability, reliability and ease of design. However, the onchip interconnect for moving the data between the processors, and between the processors and memory subsystem, plays a crucial role in CMP design. We present a novel approach to optimizing its power by exploiting the value locality in data transfers between processors. A communicating value cache (CVC) is proposed to reduce the number of bits transferred on the interconnect, and simulation results with several parallel applications show significant energy savings with this mechanism. Results show that the importance of our proposal will become even more significant in the future.
Keywords :
cache storage; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; optimisation; system-on-chip; bus energy consumption optimization; chip multiprocessor design; communicating value cache; on-chip interconnect; onchip multiprocessor; power optimization; value locality; Clocks; Communication channels; Computer science; Delay; Energy consumption; Power system interconnection; Power system reliability; Read-write memory; Scalability; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2004. Proceedings. 12th Euromicro Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2083-9
DOI :
10.1109/EMPDP.2004.1271464