TY - CHAP
T1 - HERQULES
T2 - System level cross-layer design exploration for efficient energy-quality trade-offs
AU - Karakonstantis, G.
AU - Panagopoulos, G.
AU - Roy, K.
PY - 2010/1/1
Y1 - 2010/1/1
N2 - In this paper, we present a unique cross-layer design framework that allows systematic exploration of the energy-delay-quality trade-offs at the algorithm, architecture and circuit level of design abstraction for each block of a system. In addition, taking into consideration the interactions between different sub-blocks of a system, it identifies the design solutions that can ensure the least energy at the "right amount of quality" for each sub-block/system under user quality/delay constraints. This is achieved by deriving sensitivity based design criteria, the balancing of which form the quantitative relations that can be used early in the system design process to evaluate the energy efficiency of various design options. The proposed framework when applied to the exploration of energy-quality design space of the main blocks of a digital camera and a wireless receiver, achieves 58% and 33% energy savings under 41% and 20% error increase, respectively.
AB - In this paper, we present a unique cross-layer design framework that allows systematic exploration of the energy-delay-quality trade-offs at the algorithm, architecture and circuit level of design abstraction for each block of a system. In addition, taking into consideration the interactions between different sub-blocks of a system, it identifies the design solutions that can ensure the least energy at the "right amount of quality" for each sub-block/system under user quality/delay constraints. This is achieved by deriving sensitivity based design criteria, the balancing of which form the quantitative relations that can be used early in the system design process to evaluate the energy efficiency of various design options. The proposed framework when applied to the exploration of energy-quality design space of the main blocks of a digital camera and a wireless receiver, achieves 58% and 33% energy savings under 41% and 20% error increase, respectively.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77957956591&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1840845.1840871
DO - 10.1145/1840845.1840871
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:77957956591
SN - 9781450301466
SP - 117
EP - 122
BT - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
ER -