A Resource Binding Method to Reduce Data Communication Power Dissipation on LSI

Abstract

The energy dissipation by data communications on a LSI chip depends on the layout of modules as well as how data are communicated among modules. The requirement of data communications are determined by the schedule of computations and by the resource binding of computations to functional units and data to registers. In this paper, a method of resource binding is proposed to derive a binding which is able to obtain the floorplan with reduced energy dissipation by data communications.