By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), November 21, 2022 10:51 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Foyle (nope.delete@this.nope.com) on November 21, 2022 7:58 am wrote:
> Andrey (andrey.semashev.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 21, 2022 4:23 am wrote:
> > This will probably be a naive and silly question, but I'm curious.
> >
> > Assuming that a logical one is represented with a higher voltage than a logical zero in the IC,
> > is it fair to say that ones are more expensive to process in terms of power and heat? That is,
> > if it takes more energy to charge a DRAM or SRAM cell to a level of one (in case of DRAM - also
> > to refresh it), if it takes more voltage to transfer the signal along the traces, if this voltage
> > makes more heat in the transistors implementing a logical circuit within the IC, thus causing
> > more leakage current, wouldn't it be more expensive? I wonder if someone tested this.
> >
> > If there is a measurable difference, wouldn't it make sense to account for that when designing the ICs and
> > writing software? On the hardware level, it might make sense
> > to process negated signals or a mixture of positive
> > and negated signals to reduce the number of "ones" or at least make them statistically closer to "zeros" so
> > to reduce the possible power consumption spikes. In software,
> > it would make sense to prefer zero or power-of-two
> > representations of data more often. Of course, it is not
> > possible to have a useful machine (both in hardware
> > and software) processing only zeros, but some difference could be made. Or could it?
> >
>
> I don't know about computation, but this has long been recognized and designed for in data transmission. For
> example memory buses since GDDR4 use DBI (data bus inversion) to minimize the number of energy-expensive
> line states, and apparently some buses use inversion encoding to minimize the number of transitions.
Minimizing # of transitions - that far I understand.
But preference for transmission of zeros over transmission of ones or vise versa?
It made sense on old Intel's AGTL+ buses that were terminated asymmetrically.
DDR buses are terminated symmetrically toward the middle level, so I fail to see how zero is better (or worse) than one.
> Andrey (andrey.semashev.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 21, 2022 4:23 am wrote:
> > This will probably be a naive and silly question, but I'm curious.
> >
> > Assuming that a logical one is represented with a higher voltage than a logical zero in the IC,
> > is it fair to say that ones are more expensive to process in terms of power and heat? That is,
> > if it takes more energy to charge a DRAM or SRAM cell to a level of one (in case of DRAM - also
> > to refresh it), if it takes more voltage to transfer the signal along the traces, if this voltage
> > makes more heat in the transistors implementing a logical circuit within the IC, thus causing
> > more leakage current, wouldn't it be more expensive? I wonder if someone tested this.
> >
> > If there is a measurable difference, wouldn't it make sense to account for that when designing the ICs and
> > writing software? On the hardware level, it might make sense
> > to process negated signals or a mixture of positive
> > and negated signals to reduce the number of "ones" or at least make them statistically closer to "zeros" so
> > to reduce the possible power consumption spikes. In software,
> > it would make sense to prefer zero or power-of-two
> > representations of data more often. Of course, it is not
> > possible to have a useful machine (both in hardware
> > and software) processing only zeros, but some difference could be made. Or could it?
> >
>
> I don't know about computation, but this has long been recognized and designed for in data transmission. For
> example memory buses since GDDR4 use DBI (data bus inversion) to minimize the number of energy-expensive
> line states, and apparently some buses use inversion encoding to minimize the number of transitions.
Minimizing # of transitions - that far I understand.
But preference for transmission of zeros over transmission of ones or vise versa?
It made sense on old Intel's AGTL+ buses that were terminated asymmetrically.
DDR buses are terminated symmetrically toward the middle level, so I fail to see how zero is better (or worse) than one.
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | Andrey | 2022/11/21 05:23 AM |
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | Juha Lainema | 2022/11/21 06:15 AM |
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | Adrian | 2022/11/21 07:21 AM |
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | anon2 | 2022/11/21 05:29 PM |
| switching between 0 and 1 is what consumes power | Heikki Kultala | 2022/11/21 07:23 AM |
| Thank you all for your answers. (NT) | Andrey | 2022/11/21 08:29 AM |
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | Foyle | 2022/11/21 08:58 AM |
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | Michael S | 2022/11/21 10:51 AM |
| Is 1 more expensive than 0? | Captain Obvious | 2022/11/21 11:29 AM |
| obvious stuff | anonymou5 | 2022/11/21 02:25 PM |
| obvious stuff | Andrey | 2022/11/21 02:50 PM |
| obvious stuff | Michael S | 2022/11/21 03:43 PM |
| SRAM is bistable | Anon | 2022/11/21 10:50 AM |
| SRAM is bistable | Andrew Clough | 2022/11/22 05:53 AM |
| NAND Flash 1 and 0 | jokerman | 2022/11/24 01:13 PM |
| NAND Flash 1 and 0 | Joern Engel | 2022/11/25 12:00 AM |
| NAND Flash 1 and 0 | Ungo | 2022/11/25 02:26 AM |
| The ECC needs to be stored. as ones ane zeroes (NT) | Heikki Kultala | 2022/11/25 08:31 AM |
| The ECC needs to be stored. as ones ane zeroes | anon2 | 2022/11/25 05:07 PM |
| The ECC needs to be stored. as ones ane zeroes | Heikki Kultala | 2022/11/26 12:48 AM |
| The ECC needs to be stored. as ones ane zeroes | anon2 | 2022/11/26 02:00 AM |
