Energy-aware hybrid precision selection framework for mobile GPUs

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 431-444

  Hsiao, Chih Chieh ^a   Chu, Slo Li ^a   Chen, Chen Yu ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Energy aware rendering; Graphics hardware; Mobile devices; Precision selection

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

ENERGY AWARE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FLOATING POINTS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PRECISION SELECTION; REDUCED PRECISION; SELECTION FRAMEWORK; SELECTION MECHANISM;

POWER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84877338281     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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