Issues in the Design of Low Power, High Performance Processors

低功耗、高性能处理器的设计问题

• 批准号: 9705128
• 负责人: Mary Irwin
• 金额: $ 32.54万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9705128&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Issues; Design; Low; Power; Performance

With the increasing importance of portable, mobile systems, power consumption has been elevated to be a critical design parameter. Concern over power dissipation is also important for performance-driven designs where power may soon displace chip area as the principal design constraint. This is the motivation for this project, which focuses on the design of low-power, high-performance processors, particularly those customized for use in a mobile environment. Advances are sought in architecture, software, and applications. Activities in the architecture area include the design and characterization of low-power data path functional units, the design of low-power control logic, the design of low- power on-chip caches, and the derivation and quantification of a set of strategies for designing low-power microarchitectures. The software and applications areas will include a study of the effects of compiler optimization techniques, algorithms, and data structures on power consumption of code running on candidate architectures.

随着便携式、移动系统的重要性日益增加，功耗已被提升为一个关键的设计参数。在性能驱动型设计中，功耗可能很快取代芯片面积成为主要的设计约束，对功耗的关注也很重要。这就是这个项目的动机，它专注于低功耗、高性能处理器的设计，特别是那些为移动环境使用而定制的处理器。在架构、软件和应用程序中寻求进步。架构领域的活动包括低功耗数据路径功能单元的设计和表征，低功耗控制逻辑的设计，低功耗片上缓存的设计，以及设计低功耗微架构的一组策略的推导和量化。软件和应用领域将包括编译器优化技术、算法和数据结构对候选体系结构上运行的代码功耗的影响的研究。