Title :
CalmRISCTM: a low power microcontroller with efficient coprocessor interface
Author :
Lim, Kyoung-Mook ; Jeong, Seh-Woong ; Kim, Yong-Chun ; Jeong, Seung-Jae ; Kim, Hong-Kyu ; Kim, Yang-Ho ; Chung, Bong-Young ; Roh, Hyung-Lae ; Yang, H.S.
Author_Institution :
Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
The paper presents the low power architecture of CalmRISC, a low power 8-bit microcontroller consuming only 0.1 mW per MIPS at 3.0 V, and its efficient coprocessor interface. The architectural consideration of CalmRISC for low power consumption is presented. Some low power circuit design schemes, as well as an efficient coprocessor interface scheme in CalmRISC are proposed and discussed
Keywords :
coprocessors; microcontrollers; power consumption; reduced instruction set computing; 0.1 mW; 8 bit; CalmRISC; architectural consideration; coprocessor interface; coprocessor interface scheme; low power 8-bit microcontroller; low power architecture; low power circuit design schemes; low power consumption; low power microcontroller; Coprocessors; Costs; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Energy consumption; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Reduced instruction set computing; System-on-a-chip; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design, 1999. (ICCD '99) International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0406-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1999.808554
