ELE 609E - Low-Power Electron.Sys.Design

Course Objectives

1) To introduce system-level modelling.
2) To introduce different hardware/software partitioning methods.
3) To introduce hardware power optimisation methods.
4) To introduce system level power reduction methods.

Course Description

System-level models and design issues: Definition of system, resources, architectural templates, communication architectures, hardware/software partitioning. Hardware power optimisation: Choice of data representation, data correlations, bus encoding and bus interface design, memory design, processor design. Dynamic power management: Requirements, power management policies, implementation examples. Projects: Design experiments, using prototype tools.