Behavioral synthesis for low power

Anand Raghunathan, Niraj K. Jha

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Abstract

We present a behavioral synthesis method targeting low power consumption for data-dominated CMOS circuits. A study of how the high-level synthesis process affects power consumption is presented, based on which we have developed the first allocation method for low power. We also present a method of optimizing the controller to reduce data path power dissipation. We consider loops, conditional branches, and scheduling constructs such as multicycling, chaining and structural pipelining. The techniques were implemented within the framework of an existing behavioral synthesis system. Experiments performed on various examples and benchmarks show that low power circuits can be synthesized by our method with very low or zero overheads.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages318-322
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 1994
EventProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors - Cambridge, MA, USA
Duration: Oct 10 1994Oct 12 1994

Other

OtherProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors
CityCambridge, MA, USA
Period10/10/9410/12/94

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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