Title :
Energy-Effective Instruction Fetch Unit for Embedded Processors
Author :
Cheol Hong Kim ; Intae Hwang ; Changhyeon Chae ; Daewon Choi ; Taejin Jung ; Sung Woo Chung
Author_Institution :
Chonnam Nat. Univ., Gwangju
Abstract :
For energy-aware embedded and mobile processors, this paper proposes a new energy-effective design of the instruction fetch unit that exploits the fact that the per-access energy consumption decreases as the cache size decreases.
Keywords :
cache storage; embedded systems; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; energy-aware embedded processors; energy-aware mobile processors; energy-effective instruction fetch unit; Chromium; Computer aided instruction; Design engineering; Embedded computing; Energy consumption; Logic; Mobile computing; Power engineering and energy; Registers; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. CCNC 2008. 5th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1456-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1457-4
DOI :
10.1109/ccnc08.2007.168
