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Power analysis of embedded software: a first step towards software power minimization

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Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design table of contents

San Jose, California, United States

Pages: 384 - 390

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-690-5

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Vivek Tiwari	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Sharad Malik	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Andrew Wolfe	Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation

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IEEE Computer Society Press Los Alamitos, CA, USA

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Embedded computer systems are characterized by the presence of a dedicated processor and the software that runs on it. Power constraints are increasingly becoming the critical component of the design specification of these systems. At present, however, power analysis tools can only be applied at the lower levels of the design—the circuit or gate level. It is either impractical or impossible to use the lower level tools to estimate the power cost of the software component of the system. This paper describes the first systematic attempt to model this power cost. A power analysis technique is developed that has been applied to two commercial microprocessors—Intel 486DX2 and Fujitsu SPARClite 934. This technique can be employed to evaluate the power cost of embedded software and also be used to search the design space in software power optimization.

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