Energy Efficient Microprocessor Design

This work began in 1995 as an outgrowth of the InfoPad project which showed us that in order to reduce the energy consumption of a portable multimedia terminal that something had to be done about the consumption of the microprocessor subsystem. The design of the InfoPad attempted to reduce the requirements of this general purpose processor by moving the computation into the network or by the use of highly optimized integrated circuits, but in spite of these efforts it still was a major cons...