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

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

Simulation Software

SimpleScalar ver. 2.0

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

19 Feb 07 Presentation II

Mitigating Amdahl’s Law Through EPI Throttling