Very low power pipelines using significance compression
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Abstract
Data, addresses, and instructions are compressed by maintaining only significant bytes with two or three extension bits appended to indicate the significant byte positions. This significance compression method is integrated into a 5-stage pipeline, with the extension bits flowing down the pipeline to enable pipeline operations only for the significant bytes. Consequently, register logic and cache activity (and dynamic power) are substantially reduced. An initial trace-driven study shows reduction in activity of approximately 30-40% for each pipeline stage. Several pipeline organizations are studied. A byte serial pipeline is the simplest implementation, but suffers a CPI (cycles per instruction) increase of 79% compared with a conventional 32-bit pipeline. Widening certain pipeline stages in order to balance processing bandwidth leads to an implementation with a CPI 24% higher than the baseline 32-bit design. Finally, full-width pipeline stages with operand gating achieve a CPI within 2-6% of the baseline 32-bit pipeline.
CitacióCanal, R., Gonzalez, A., Smith, J. Very low power pipelines using significance compression. A: Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture. "33rd Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture: MICRO-33, 2000: 10-13 december 2000: Monterey, California, USA: proceedings". Monterey, California: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2000, p. 181-190.
ISBN0-7695-0924-X
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