Reducing Power Dissipation of Data Communications on LSI with Scheduling Exploration

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Power dissipation by data communications on LSI depends on not only the binding and floorplan of functional units and registers but how data communications are executed. Data communications depend on the binding, and the binding depends on the schedule of operations. Therefore, it is important to obtain the best schedule which leads to the best binding and floorplan to minimize the power dissipated by data communication. In this paper a schedule exploration method is presented to search the best one which achieves the minimized energy dissipation of data communications.