Research Article

Design of Smart Power-Saving Architecture for Network on Chip

Table 1

Comparison of power consumption and area.

MethodsConstraints
Power consumption (mW)Area (number of slices)Improved powerImproved area

IntelliBuffer [2]410.42155137.31%49.4%
Adaptive data compression [3]474.53105445.79%25.5%
Buffer clock-gating [10]318.6391719.26%14.4%
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