Program and data annotation for hardware customization and energy optimization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104435-B2
Application number	US-42337409-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2009
Priority date	Apr 14, 2009
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Technologies are generally described herein for supporting program and data annotation for hardware customization and energy optimization. A code block to be annotated may be examined and a hardware customization may be determined to support a specified quality of service level for executing the code block with reduced energy expenditure. Annotations may be determined as associated with the determined hardware customization. An annotation may be provided to indicate using the hardware customization while executing the code block. Examining the code block may include one or more of performing a symbolic analysis, performing an empirical observation of an execution of the code block, performing a statistical analysis, or any combination thereof. A data block to be annotated may also be examined. One or more additional annotations to be associated with the data block may be determined.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method to provide annotations to a target system to use to execute a code block, the method comprising:
examining the code block to be annotated with one or more static annotations and one or more dynamic annotations, wherein the dynamic annotation changes at the target system during execution of the code block;
specifying a quality of service level to execute the code block with a reduced energy expenditure, wherein the quality of service level is diffe…

Assignees

• Potkonjak Miodrag
• Empire Technology Dev Llc

Inventors

• Potkonjak Miodrag

Classifications

• G06F8/4432 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• Y02B60/181

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02D10/00

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F1/3234 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic