Result: An activity-driven encoding scheme for power optimization in microprogrammed control unit

Title:
An activity-driven encoding scheme for power optimization in microprogrammed control unit
Authors:
WANG, C.-Y, ROY, K
Source:
IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems. 7(1):130-134
Publisher Information:
Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1999.
Publication Year:
1999
Physical Description:
print, 8 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Electronics, Electronique, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences appliquees, Applied sciences, Electronique, Electronics, Electronique des semiconducteurs. Microélectronique. Optoélectronique. Dispositifs à l'état solide, Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices, Circuits intégrés, Integrated circuits, Conception. Technologies. Analyse fonctionnement. Essais, Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing, Circuit VLSI, VLSI circuit, Circuito VLSI, Circuit intégré, Integrated circuit, Circuito integrado, Codage, Coding, Codificación, Commutation, Switching, Conmutación, Conception assistée, Computer aided design, Concepción asistida, Consommation énergie, Energy consumption, Consumo energía, Demande énergie, Energy demand, Demanda energía, Fiabilité système, System reliability, Fiabilidad sistema, Minimisation, Minimization, Minimización, Méthode combinatoire, Combinatorial method, Método combinatorio, Système microprogrammé, Microprogrammed system, Sistema microprogramado, Technique programmation, Programmation technique, Técnica programación, Technologie MOS complémentaire, Complementary MOS technology, Tecnología MOS complementario, Unité contrôle, Control unit, Unidad control
Document Type:
Academic journal Article
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043-4033, United States
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285, United States
ISSN:
1063-8210
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=1732118
Rights:
Copyright 1999 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Electronics
Accession Number:
edscal.1732118
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

With the high demand for reliability and further integration, power consumption has become a critical concern in today's very large scale integration design. Considering the different techniques to minimize power consumption and promote system's reliability, reducing switching activity of CMOS circuits is a promising area to be explored. In this paper, we present a encoding scheme to refine the control memory in a microprogrammed control unit, which can reduce switching activities within the control unit and on the path from control unit to data-processing unit. To achieve this, pseudo-Boolean programming techniques have been introduced to efficiently encode don't care bits in the control memory. Experiments have been conducted with a subset of 8086 instruction set. Results show that, 4.8%-16.5% reduction of switching activities can be obtained from the proposed encoding scheme.