IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Solid-State Circuit Design—Architecture, Circuit, Device and Design Methodology
Valid Digit and Overflow Information to Reduce Energy Dissipation of Functional Units in General Purpose Processors
Kazuhito ITOTakuya NUMATA
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2013 Volume E96.C Issue 4 Pages 463-472

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In order to reduce the dynamic energy dissipation in CMOS LSIs, it is effective to reduce the frequency of value changes of the signals. In this paper, a data expression with the valid digit and lower digit overflow information is proposed to suppress unnecessary signal changes in integer functional units and registers of general purpose processors. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the energy dissipation by 9.8% for benchmark programs.

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