Instruction addressing method and implemetation for low pouter system by using guarded operation

Guarded Operation을 이용한 명령어 어드레싱 방법 및 구현

  • 이세환 (연세대학교 전기전자공학과) ;
  • 곽승호 (연세대학교 전기전자공학과) ;
  • 이문기 (연세대학교 전기전자공학과)
  • Published : 2001.06.01

Abstract

In this paper, we present a effective low-power technique which can reduce significantly the switching activity in instruction address bus, pipeline and I-cache. Using this method, named Guarded Operation, we has implemented address register. address bus architecture without complex hardware and designed loop buffer without tag. These architectures reduce 67% of switching activity with little overhead and also increase instruction-fetch performance.

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