Architectural and compiler techniques for energy reduction in high-performance microprocessors

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-326

  Bellas, Nikolaos ^b   Hajj, Ibrahim N ^a,c   Polychronopoulos, Constantine D ^c   Stamoulis, George ^d  

^a IEEE

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^c United States of America   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; TRANSISTORS;

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT; COMPILER TECHNIQUE; ENERGY REDUCTION; NONNUMERIC NONLOOP INTENSIVE CODE; ON-CHIP CACHE; SIGNAL SWITCHING ACTIVITY;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0033723926     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.845897     Document Type: Article

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