{"title":"A digital signal processor for low power","authors":"H. Jang, S. Kim, Young-hoon Chang","doi":"10.1109/APASIC.1999.824025","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Low power in digital signal processor design has been a critical design constraint since portable battery operated devices prevailed. Most of the power dissipation of a processor is in the clock network and the on-chip memory. By optimizing the critical path of the processor we could reduce the power of clock network. We propose an energy-efficient instruction set architecture to reduce the power consumption of the program memory access. We applied it to a digital hearing aid, and reduced the program memory size by approximately 75%.","PeriodicalId":346808,"journal":{"name":"AP-ASIC'99. First IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on ASICs (Cat. No.99EX360)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AP-ASIC'99. First IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on ASICs (Cat. No.99EX360)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APASIC.1999.824025","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Abstract
Low power in digital signal processor design has been a critical design constraint since portable battery operated devices prevailed. Most of the power dissipation of a processor is in the clock network and the on-chip memory. By optimizing the critical path of the processor we could reduce the power of clock network. We propose an energy-efficient instruction set architecture to reduce the power consumption of the program memory access. We applied it to a digital hearing aid, and reduced the program memory size by approximately 75%.