Low Power Design Essentials ©2008 5.49  Best explored using Energy-Delay curves  For each proposed architecture and parameters set, determine average energy-delay over library of benchmark examples  Modern computer-aided design tools allow for quick synthesis and analysis –Leads to fair comparison  Example: Subliminal Project - University of Michigan –Explores processor architecture over the following parameters: Depth and number of pipeline stages; Memory: Von Neumann or Harvard; ALU Width(8/16/32); With or without explicit register file Simple versus Complex Processors
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