Power-Aware Microarchitecture: Design and Modeling Challenges for Next-Generation Microprocessors

著者: David M. Brooks, Pradip Bose, Stanley Schuster, Hans M. Jacobson, Prabhakar Kudva, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, John-David Wellman, Victor V. Zyuban, Manish Gupta, Peter W. Cook - IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture 2000 被引用: 506

The ability to estimate power consumption during early-stage definition and trade-off studies is a key new methodology enhancement. Opportunities for saving power can be exposed via microarchitecture-level modeling, particularly through clock-gating and dynamic adaptation. In this paper we describe the approach of using energy-enabled performance simulators in early design. We examine some of the emerging paradigms in processor design and comment on their inherent power-performance characteristics.