ALBORZ: Address Level Bus Power Optimization

In this paper we introduce a new low power address bus encoding technique, and the resulting code, named ALBORZ. The ALBORZ code is constructed based on transition signaling the limited-weight codes and, with enhancements to make it adaptive and irredundant, results in up to 89% reduction in the instruction bus switching activity at the expense of a small area overhead.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ISQED
• Authors: Yazdan Aghaghiri, Farzan Fallah, Massoud Pedram
• Keywords: ALBORZ Code, Bus Encoding Technique, Bus Switching Activity, Hardware, ISQED 2002