Techniques for energy minimization of communication pipelines
Gang Qu, Miodrag Potkonjak · 1998
me performance of many modem computer and communication systems is dictated by latency of communication pipelinm.At the same time, power consumption is often another fimiting factor in many portable systems.We addrws the problem of how to minimize the power consumption in system-level pipetines under latency constraints.h partictiar, we exploit advantages provided by variable voltage design methodology to optimtiy select SPA and therefore voltage of each pipefine stage.We define the problem and solve it optimtiy under rdstic and widely accepted assumptions.We apply the obtained theoretical r~sdts to develop rdgorithms for power minimization of computer and communication systems and show that significmt power reduction is possible without additiomd latency.