Power-Manageable Scheduling Technique for Control Dominated High-Level Synthesis

Optimizing power consumption at high-level is a critical step towards power-efficient digital system designs. This paper addresses the power management problem by scheduling a given control-dominated data flow graph. We discuss delay and power issues with scheduling, and propose an improvement algorithm for insertion of socalled soft edges which enable power optimization under timing constraints. Power savings obtained by our approach on tested circuits range between 15% and 30% of the initial power dissipation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Chunhong Chen, Majid Sarrafzadeh
• Keywords: DATE 2002, Hardware, Initial Power Dissipation, Power Consumption, Power Management Problem