Power exploration for data dominated video applications
Sven Wuytack, Francky Catthoor, Lode Nachtergaele, Hillarie Man · 1996
In this paper we present our power exploration methodology for data dominated video applications. This formalized methodology is based on the observation that for this type of applications the power consumption is dominated by the memory architecture. Therefore, the first exploration stage is to come up with an optimized memory organisation. Other important observations are that the power consumption of the address generators is of the same magnitude as that of the data-paths and that the address generators are better optimized using specialized techniques.