As process technology scales down, power wall starts to hinder improvements in processor performance. Performance optimization has to proceed under a power constraint. The co-optimization requires exploration into a huge design space containing both performance and power factors, whose size is over costly for extensive traditional simulations. This paper describes a unified model covering both performance and power. The model consists of workload parameters, architectural parameters plus corresponding power parameters with a good degree of accuracy compared with physical processors and simulators. We apply the model to the problem of co-optimizing the power and performance. Concrete insights into the tradeoffs of designs for performance and power are obtained in the process of co-optimization. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2006.
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Zhu, Y., Wong, W. F., & Andrei, Ş. (2006). Co-optimization of performance and power in a superscalar processor design. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4097 LNCS, pp. 868–878). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11807964_87
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