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Details of Grant
 
EPSRC Reference: GR/R40005/01
Title: Low Power High Performance Microarchitecture and Compilation
Principal Investigator: Professor M O'Boyle
Other Investigators:
Researcher Co-investigator:
Project Partner:
Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd
Department: Sch of Informatics
Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Scheme: Standard Research
Starts: 01 April 2002 Ends: 30 September 2005 Value (£): 115,093
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Energy Efficiency Parallel Computing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Electronics
Related Grants:
Panel History:  
Summary
Power consumption will shortly become one of the critical issues in embedded system and general purpose micro-processor architecture. The aim of this project is therefore to investigate new microarchitectural and compiler techniques to reduce power consumption. The performance and power consumption validation of these techniques are based on cycle-level power and performance architectural simulators. These tools will allow quantative analysis of the effectiveness of the proposed solutions with arbitrary architectural configurations and program workloads. This project will address the issue of realistic implementations, different methodologies and synergy between hardware and software to design low power computing systems.

Final Report Summary
Power consumption will shortly become one of the critical issues in embedded system and general purpose micro-processor architecture. The aim of this project is therefore to investigate new microarchitectural and compiler techniques to reduce power consumption. The performance and power consumption validation of these techniques are based on cycle-level power and performance architectural simulators. These tools will allow quantative analysis of the effectiveness of the proposed solutions with arbitrary architectural configurations and program workloads. This project will address the issue of realistic implementations, different methodologies and synergy between hardware and software to design low power computing systems.

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