ABSTRACT

Power consumption is a problem for designers at all levels from transistor architects to system programmers. For many it is a first-order design constraint. In recent years, designers have made progress in addressing this problem. At the transistor and microarchitecture levels, these improvements

CONTENTS

8.1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 217 8.2 Related Work ............................................................................................... 219

8.2.1 Dynamic Adaptation ...................................................................... 219 8.3 Methodology ...............................................................................................220