Power Control

10.1About power control

The features of the processor that improve energy efficiency include:

branch and return prediction, reducing the number of incorrect instruction fetch and decode operations

the caches use sequential access information to reduce the number of accesses to the tag RAMs and to unwanted data RAMs.

In the processor, extensive use is also made of gated clocks and gates to disable inputs to unused functional blocks. Only the logic actively in use to perform a calculation consumes any dynamic power.

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