CSE591 Low Power Architecture

29 Jan 07 Presentation I

Instruction Level Power Dissipation in the Intel XScale Embedded Microprocessor

Tools for power analysis of microprocessors at the microarchitectural level:

• SimpleScalar computer architecture simulator

• Wattch: a framework for architectural-level power analysis and optimizations

This software is based on the SimpleScalar software

Download Wattch

• SimplePower "A cycle accurate energy simulator"

5 Feb 07 Project I Topic due

Simulation Software

• SimpleScalar ver. 2.0

Example: project description with a couple of lines of example output data

"SimpleScalar hacker's guide" (slides)

SimpleScalar Tutorial (slides)

Enhancements and Applications of the SimpleScalar Simulator... (paper)

• PTScalar Reference

DVFS Project Resources

• Dynamic Voltage Scaling in Mobile Devices

Concise references for DVFS project from 2003 using speedstep on an IBM Thinkpad

Good linux kernel reference

Project II

• XScale project using PXA250 80200 already in Dr. Shrivastava's possession.

19 Feb 07 Presentation II

Mitigating Amdahl’s Law Through EPI Throttling