This paper presents an experimental study of the energy dissipation in the memory hierarchy of an embedded system during the execution of a specific application. Because of its ubiquity in many applications in different fields, we have chosen the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) as a benchmark for our study. The experiments consist of evaluating the energy dissipation of the memory hierarchy of the system, by comparing different software implementations of the DCT. An instruction-level simulator and a cache simulator have been used to perform energy estimation. The experiments show that the fastest (i.e., more hardware- or performance-efficient) implementation is not always the most beneficial from the memory energy stand-point
Analysis of Energy Dissipation in the Memory Hierarchy of Embedded Systems: A Case Study / L. BENINI; MACII A.; E. MACII; M. PONCINO. - (2000), pp. 236-239. ((Intervento presentato al convegno MELECON-00: IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference tenutosi a Cyprus nel Maggio 2000.
Titolo: | Analysis of Energy Dissipation in the Memory Hierarchy of Embedded Systems: A Case Study |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2000 |
Abstract: | This paper presents an experimental study of the energy dissipation in the memory hierarchy of a...n embedded system during the execution of a specific application. Because of its ubiquity in many applications in different fields, we have chosen the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) as a benchmark for our study. The experiments consist of evaluating the energy dissipation of the memory hierarchy of the system, by comparing different software implementations of the DCT. An instruction-level simulator and a cache simulator have been used to perform energy estimation. The experiments show that the fastest (i.e., more hardware- or performance-efficient) implementation is not always the most beneficial from the memory energy stand-point |
ISBN: | 078036290X |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |
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