power cost breakdown structure of the Epiphany chip??

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power cost breakdown structure of the Epiphany chip??

Postby booth » Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:15 pm

Andreas Olofsson mentioned in his keynote address (see Youtube) that %10 of the power consumption goes to interfacing and almost %90 goes to the FPU.
Is there are power cost breakdown structure available? I believe the floating point multiplier is responsible for the majority of the power consumption. (Its usually the multiplier in DSP chips).
If we avoid using the floating point instructions can we get further power savings?
This question is for the designers of the Epiphany.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: power cost breakdown structure of the Epiphany chip??

Postby tnt » Mon Oct 28, 2013 9:36 am

Yeah it'd be interesting to know which part is dynamic power and which part is static power.
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Re: power cost breakdown structure of the Epiphany chip??

Postby shodruk » Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:55 am

Using 16bit width instructions may reduce power consumption, too.
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