We present extensions to the programmable DSP architectures for reduced power dissipations. These extensions address power reduction in both external and internal busses, which form a major component of power dissipation in pipelined programmable processors such as DSPs. We present two techniques to reduce power dissipation in the program and data memory address busses, a technique to reduce cross-coupling related power dissipation in the program memory data bus and a technique for reducing power dissipation in the input busses of the ALU. We present results in terms of power savings using these techniques.
Index Terms:
Low Power Design, DSP Architecture
Citation:
Mahesh Mehendale, S.D. Sherlekar, G. Venkatesh, "Extensions to Programmable DSP architectures for Reduced Power Dissipation," vlsid, pp.37, Eleventh International Conference on VLSI Design: VLSI for Signal Processing, 1998