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Low Power Design on SoC

Low Power Design on SoC. Member : 張民杰 P90921010 郭光爵 P91921004 黃興洋 R91922047 Speaker : 郭光爵. Outline. Why Low Power ? Design Issues on Power Consumption Key Criteria for Power Reduction General Approaches Conclusion. Outline. Why Low Power ?

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Low Power Design on SoC

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  1. Low Power Design on SoC Member : 張民杰 P90921010 郭光爵 P91921004 黃興洋 R91922047 Speaker : 郭光爵

  2. Outline • Why Low Power ? • Design Issues on Power Consumption • Key Criteria for Power Reduction • General Approaches • Conclusion

  3. Outline • Why Low Power ? • Design Issues on Power Consumption • Key Criteria for Power Reduction • General Approaches • Conclusion

  4. Motivation of Low Power • Energy-efficient computing is required by • Mobile electronic systems • Large-scale electronic systems • Requirement of energy efficiency affects all aspects of system design • Packaging costs • Cooling costs • Power supply rail design • Noise immunity and system reliability

  5. Technology Directions

  6. Chip Power Densities

  7. Outline • Why Low Power ? • Design Issues on Power Consumption • Key Criteria for Power Reduction • General Approaches • Conclusion

  8. Basic Concepts (1/2) • P = CLVDD2f 01 + tsc VDD Ipeak f 0  1 + VDD Ipeak • Dynamic term (~90%) CLVDD2f 01 • Short-circuit term (~8%) tsc VDD Ipeakf 0  1 • Leakage term (~2%) VDD Ipeak • Dynamic Power • Power dissipation due to capacitance charging at transitions from 0  1 and 1  0

  9. Basic Concepts (2/2) • Short-Circuit Power • Power consumption due to brief short-circuit current during transitions • Static Power • Steady, per-cycle energy cost, e.g. Leakage Power • More important issue in deep submicron • Mostly focus on dynamic, but recently work on others

  10. Hierarchical Design (1/2)

  11. Hierarchical Design (2/2)

  12. Outline • Why Low Power ? • Design Issues on Power Consumption • Key Criteria for Power Reduction • General Approaches • Conclusion

  13. Voltage Supply (Vdd) • Biggest impact : 50% reduction in Vdd, 75% reduction in power • Can not be reduced indefinitely (can’t be too close to Vt – lower Vt means higher leakage power – and lower Vdd increases latency) • Power-driven voltage scaling • Pipelining, Parallelization, Loop unrolling • Multiple voltages • Slow down non-critical path with lower voltage supply • Two or more power grids

  14. Clock Frequency (fclk) • Has significant impact only in conjunction with Vdd scaling • Lowering only f does not decrease energy • But it may increase battery life • Reduce average power • Energy throughput becomes worse • Multi-frequency clocks

  15. Load Capacitance (CL) • Roughly proportional to the chip area • Can be reduced by re-synthesis or re-design for low power • Reduce wiring capacitance • Reduce local loads • Reduce global interconnect • Global interconnect can be reduce by improving spatial locality : trade off communication for computation

  16. Switching Activity (f01) • Very data depedent • A big portion due to glitches (real-delay) – reducing glitches • Can be reduced by power sensitive data encoding, re-synthesis (e.g. balanced designs) • Improve correlation between consecutive input to functional macros • Synergistic high-level-synthesis approaches lead best results

  17. Outline • Why Low Power ? • Design Issues on Power Consumption • Key Criteria for Power Reduction • General Approaches • Conclusion

  18. Power Estimation (1/3) • Gate level – challenges • Need node-by-node accuracy • Vdd, fclk, CL are known • Actually, layout will determine the interconnect capacitance • Need to estimate switching activity accurately • Spatial and temporal dependencies – circuit and input included

  19. Power Estimation (2/3) • RT/Microarchitectural level – challenges • Details of IP core implementation is largely unknown • Have to abstract switching activity and capacitance values • Less accurate, but more efficient • Efficient design space exploration

  20. Power Estimation (3/3) • Software and system level – challenges • Very few implementation details available • Need to rely on accurate lower level estimation tools • Complexity can be prohibitive for highly accurate estimates

  21. SimplePower SystemFramework

  22. SimplePower Compilation Framework

  23. Other Related Tools • Intel Tempest • Princeton Wattch • IBM PowerTimer

  24. Power Optimization (1/4) • Gate level • Mostly targets CL and switching activity reduction • Reduce power via • Logic synthesis • Precomputation / guarded evaluation • Clock gating

  25. Power Optimization (2/4) • RT/Behavioral/Microarchitecture level • Mostly targets CL, switching activity, as well as joint Vdd/fclk reduction • Need to rely on high-level (maybe not so accurate) estimates • Low power register sharing • Low power module assignment • Multiple supply voltage assignment • Bus encoding

  26. Power Optimization (3/4) • Software level • Per-instruction cost, plus inter-instruction effects • Ep = Σ (Bi x Ni) + Σ(Oi,j x Ni,j) + Σ Ek • Modified list scheduling algorithm for low power instruction scheduling • Operation packing • Operand swapping

  27. Power Optimization (4/4) • System level • Platform-based design • Workload specific mapping • Application and platform modeling and mapping • Dynamic power management • Operating System – driven • Microarchitecture and Software supported • ACPI, DPM • “Energy Aware Computing” • Yung-Hsiang Lu, Luca Benini, Member, IEEE and Giovanni De Micheli, Fellow, IEEE Power-Aware Operating Systems for Interactive System, IEEE Trans. on VLSI

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