Power exploration for data dominated video applications

In this paper we present our power exploration methodology for data dominated video applications. This formalized methodology is based on the observation that for this type of application the power consumption is dominated by the memory architecture. Hence, the first exploration stage should be to come up with an optimized memory organisation. Other important observations are that the power consumption of the address generators is of the same magnitude as that of the data-paths and that the address generators are better optimized using specialized techniques.