EAC: A Compiler Framework for High-Level Energy Estimation and Optimization

This paper presents a novel Energy-Aware Compilation (EAC) framework that can estimate and optimize energy consumption of a given code taking as input the architectural and technological parameters, energy models, and energy/performance constraints. The framework has been validated using a cycle-accurate architectural-level energy simulator and found to be within 6% error margin while providing significant estimation speedup. The estimation speed of EAC is the key to the number of optimization alternatives that can be explored within a reasonable compilation time.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Ismail Kadayif, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane Irwin, Anand Sivasubramaniam
• Keywords: Architectural-level Energy Simulator, DATE 2002, Hardware, Reasonable Compilation Time, Significant Estimation Speedup