Generic Algorithm Based Voltage Islands-Aware Multiple Voltage Assignment

摘要：

Power consumption has become one of most serious challenges for SoC design. Among the various methods, Multiple Supply Voltage (MSV) is an effective method for power reduction. In this paper, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to optimize the Voltage Islands-Aware Multiple Voltage Assignment (VIAMVA). A cost function is developed to take the overhead of level shifters and the complexity of power network into account. The proposed algorithm is tested on six GSRC benchmarks. Experimental results show that the proposed method can save power consumption up to 47.60％ with voltage island generation.

关键词： multiple voltage assignment voltage island generation genetic algorithm power reduction

作者: Shimin Du Yinshui Xia Zhufei Chu Lixia Qi

作者单位: School of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P.R.China College of Scien School of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 2010 International Conference on Computer Application and System Modeling(2010计算机应用与系统建模国际会议 ICCASM 2010)

会议地点: 太原

会议语种:英文

页码: 623-627

在线出版日期: 2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）