Cycle-accurate power analysis for multiprocessor systems-on-a-chip

Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 401-406

  Loghi, Mirko ^a   Poncino, Massimo ^a   Benini, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Low Power; Multiprocessor; System on Chip

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTIMIZATION; TELEPHONE SETS;

LOW POWER; MULTIPROCESSOR; POWER CONSUMPTION; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942642819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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