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Our observations deal with what impact interconnect power has and
how SSA impacts interconnect power. We use a low power high-level
synthesis tool, called SCALP [10], to obtain RTL circuits
and power consumption of controllers/datapaths, aided by our
interconnect power estimation methods detailed in
Section III. SCALP is interconnect-unaware.
Considering memory design a separate issue from interconnect power
optimization, we do not use any memory modules in the benchmarks.
Instead, we use registers as storage units.
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Lin Zhong
2003-10-11