February 06, 2002
UCR CS269: Hardware/Software Engineering of Embedded Systems
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Architecture Optimizations
• Due to the dependence of power on voltage, voltage reduction is the most favored method of reducing power.
•It has been shown that aggressive voltage reductions are possible if architectural and algorithmic transformations are applied to the problem (pipelining and parallelism) to regain the lost performance of voltage reduction.
•This works well for throughput-oriented limited-function applications(e.g. digital filtering).