Title :
Multitask micropower CMOS Microprocessor
Author :
Perotto, J-F ; Lamothe, C. ; Arm, C. ; Piguet, C. ; Fink, S. ; Sanchez, E. ; Wattenhofer, J-P ; Cecchini, M.
Author_Institution :
CSEM Centre Suisse d´´Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Maladiÿre 71, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Abstract :
The described microprocessor is a micropower multitask machine with a hardware scheduler. The task switching is performed at the instruction level. The programmer may choose a task configuration, i.e. one to four pseudo-parallel tasks depending on the application. To replace a software scheduler by a hardware scheduler allows to reduce the power consumption.
Keywords :
Algorithms; Application software; Clocks; Counting circuits; Energy consumption; Hardware; Microprocessors; Processor scheduling; Read-write memory; Reduced instruction set computing;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1993. ESSCIRC '93. Nineteenth European
Conference_Location :
Sevilla, Spain
Print_ISBN :
2-86335-134-X
