An Efficient Multi‐Core DSP Power Management Controller

ABSTRACT Today's society has entered a digital era, and the use of DSP is becoming increasingly frequent and important. In order to achieve the market targets of high energy efficiency, it is necessary to integrate low‐power design from the chip design stage. Based on FT‐xDSP chip architecture,...

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Main Authors: Jian Huang, Huili Wang, Guohui Gong, Lei Wang, Xiaowen Chen
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Published: Wiley 2025-04-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/eng2.70079
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description ABSTRACT Today's society has entered a digital era, and the use of DSP is becoming increasingly frequent and important. In order to achieve the market targets of high energy efficiency, it is necessary to integrate low‐power design from the chip design stage. Based on FT‐xDSP chip architecture, this work designs a power management controller for DSP suitable for multi‐core and multi‐integrated peripherals from the perspective of power control in the chip design stage. This controller can precisely control the power supply, clock, and memory of each module in the DSP and introduces a clamp control unit in the power management controller to solve the problem of possible glitches during asynchronous reset and ensures that the system has no overflow of redundant requests. Additionally, a configurable state transition counter is also set up to avoid the problem of insufficient state transition time for low‐speed peripherals or long waiting time for high‐speed peripherals. After the pre‐tapeout experiment and post‐tapeout testing data analysis, the above new power control manager has excellent power management performance. In the low power consumption state of the chip, the overall power consumption of the core is reduced by over 95%, which is of great significance for achieving high‐efficiency processor chips.
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spelling doaj-art-1ff9a29ae86b4fda8c4bf4a334696a8a2025-08-20T02:14:58ZengWileyEngineering Reports2577-81962025-04-0174n/an/a10.1002/eng2.70079An Efficient Multi‐Core DSP Power Management ControllerJian Huang0Huili Wang1Guohui Gong2Lei Wang3Xiaowen Chen4R&D Department Hunan Great Wall Galaxy Technology Co., Ltd. Changsha Hunan ChinaR&D Department Hunan Great Wall Galaxy Technology Co., Ltd. Changsha Hunan ChinaR&D Department Hunan Great Wall Galaxy Technology Co., Ltd. Changsha Hunan ChinaR&D Department Hunan Great Wall Galaxy Technology Co., Ltd. Changsha Hunan ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology National University of Defense Technology Changsha Hunan ChinaABSTRACT Today's society has entered a digital era, and the use of DSP is becoming increasingly frequent and important. In order to achieve the market targets of high energy efficiency, it is necessary to integrate low‐power design from the chip design stage. Based on FT‐xDSP chip architecture, this work designs a power management controller for DSP suitable for multi‐core and multi‐integrated peripherals from the perspective of power control in the chip design stage. This controller can precisely control the power supply, clock, and memory of each module in the DSP and introduces a clamp control unit in the power management controller to solve the problem of possible glitches during asynchronous reset and ensures that the system has no overflow of redundant requests. Additionally, a configurable state transition counter is also set up to avoid the problem of insufficient state transition time for low‐speed peripherals or long waiting time for high‐speed peripherals. After the pre‐tapeout experiment and post‐tapeout testing data analysis, the above new power control manager has excellent power management performance. In the low power consumption state of the chip, the overall power consumption of the core is reduced by over 95%, which is of great significance for achieving high‐efficiency processor chips.https://doi.org/10.1002/eng2.70079clamp controlDSPlow power consumptionmulti‐core peripheralmulti‐integrated peripheralpower management controller
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clamp control
DSP
low power consumption
multi‐core peripheral
multi‐integrated peripheral
power management controller
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title_fullStr An Efficient Multi‐Core DSP Power Management Controller
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title_short An Efficient Multi‐Core DSP Power Management Controller
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DSP
low power consumption
multi‐core peripheral
multi‐integrated peripheral
power management controller
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