Techniques for Energy Minimization of Communication Pipelines

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1998-11Author
Qu, Gang
Potkonjak, Miodrag
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G. Qu , and M. Potkonjak. "Techniques for Energy Minimization of Communication Pipelines," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 597-600, November 1998.
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The performance of many modern computer and communication
systems is dictated by latency of communication pipelines. At the
same time, power consumption is often another limiting factor in
many portable systems. We address the problem of how to minimize
the power consumption in system-level pipelines under latency
constraints. In particular, we exploit advantages provided by
variable voltage design methodology to optimally select speed and
therefore voltage of each pipeline stage. We define the problem and
solve it optimally under realistic and widely accepted assumptions.
We apply the obtained theoretical results to develop algorithms for
power minimization of computer and communication systems and
show that significant power reduction is possible without additional
latency.