Memory synthesis for low power ASIC design

Wen-Tsong Shiue1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

Tóm tắt

In this paper we describe a multi-module, multiport memory design procedure that satisfies area and/or energy constraints. Our procedure consists of using ILP models and heuristic-based algorithms to determine (a) the memory configuration with minimum area, given the energy bound, (b) the memory configuration with minimum energy, given the area bound, (c) array allocation such that the energy consumption is minimum for a given memory configuration (number of modules, size and number of ports per module). The results obtained by the heuristics match well with those obtained by the ILP methods.

Từ khóa

#Application specific integrated circuits #Energy consumption #Heuristic algorithms #Costs #Electrocardiography #Very large scale integration #Focusing #Multidimensional systems #Streaming media #Video sequences

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