TY - GEN
T1 - Identifying optimal generic processors for biomedical implants
AU - Strydis, Christos
AU - Dave, Dhara
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The extremely limited resource budget available to medical implants makes it imperative that they are designed in the most optimal way possible. The limited resources include - but are not limited to - battery life, expected responsiveness of the system and chip area. We have already detailed the design of a design-space exploration (DSE) tool specifically geared towards finding the Pareto-optimal design front. In this paper, we choose processor configurations from the Paretooptimal processor set found by the DSE using real implants as case studies. We find that even under the extremely biased constraints that we use, our processor(s) perform better than many of the real implants. This provides strong hints towards designing an implant processor that is generic enough to cover most, if not all, implant applications.
AB - The extremely limited resource budget available to medical implants makes it imperative that they are designed in the most optimal way possible. The limited resources include - but are not limited to - battery life, expected responsiveness of the system and chip area. We have already detailed the design of a design-space exploration (DSE) tool specifically geared towards finding the Pareto-optimal design front. In this paper, we choose processor configurations from the Paretooptimal processor set found by the DSE using real implants as case studies. We find that even under the extremely biased constraints that we use, our processor(s) perform better than many of the real implants. This provides strong hints towards designing an implant processor that is generic enough to cover most, if not all, implant applications.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650735651&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCD.2010.5647642
DO - 10.1109/ICCD.2010.5647642
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:78650735651
SN - 9781424489350
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors
SP - 494
EP - 501
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2010
T2 - 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2010
Y2 - 3 October 2010 through 6 October 2010
ER -