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Concept Paper on Design and Optimization of Energyefficient
Architectures for Edge Computing
G. M. S. C Gajendrasinghe
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*, M. D. R. Perera
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1
Department of Software Engineering and Computer Security, NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka
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Department of Computer Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
*Corresponding Author
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51583/IJLTEMAS.2026.15020000068
Received: 20 February 2026; Accepted: 26 February 2026; Published: 16 March 2026
ABSTRACT
Edge computing is now transforming how data is processed by shifting the computing devices closer to the
source of data generation. Even though this transformation helps reduce latency and bandwidth consumption, it
introduces a critical challenge. The edge devices operate with strict hardware constraints. The conventional
microcontrollers such as ATmega328p and ESP32 offer simple and reliable design while they come with lack of
architectural mechanism for advanced energy optimization.
This research proposes the idea of designing an edge oriented, System on Chip (SoC) implemented using Verilog,
integrating a 32bit Reduce Instruction Set Computing V(RISC-V/ RV32I) core with essential peripherals for the
proposed microcontroller design. The new architecture explores energy minimization strategies including
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), Sleep Modes, Clock Gating, Approximate ALU (Arithmetic
and Logic Unit) in a separate manner. All the techniques will be implemented and evaluated separately. After
thorough evaluation all techniques will be synergized and evaluated in one system. By means of Xilinx Vivado
simulation and power analysis, a structured experimental matrix compares the baseline design against the
optimized variants mentioned above. To represent edge workloads an integer multiplication (N32/64) and FIR
(Finite Impulse Response) filtering will be complied using RISCV32 GCC toolchain under Ubuntu Operating
System and executed on the soft SoC. The estimations of power, latency and Hardware areas such as LUTSs
(Look Up Tables), Registers, BRAM (Block Random Access Memory) will be measured and compared to
evaluate energy, latency and area tradeoffs.
The study leverages recent research in energy efficient RISC-V microarchitectures, approximate computing and
adaptive DVFS policies. This research contributes a reproducible methodology for architectural energy
optimization in edge computing by providing a quantitative evaluation within a unified FPGA (Field
Programmable Gate Array) based framework. The expected outcome is a demonstrable reduction is dynamic and
static power while maintaining an acceptable performance degradation, setting up design guidelines for next
generation energy-aware embedded architectures.
Keywords: Edge Computing, RISC-V, Energy Optimization, Clock Gating, DVFS
INTRODUCTION
During the past decade, computation and data processing have gradually shifted away from centralized cloud
infrastructures towards distributed edge systems where data is processed near to the source of the data. The
realworld applications such as environmental sensing, smart agriculture, industrial Internet of Things (IIoT),
wearable health monitoring, and embedded robotics demand local data processing with minimal latency.
Nevertheless, unlike cloud servers, edge devices operate under tight power and resource restrictions, often
relying on batteries or energy harvesting. As a result, energy efficiency is no longer an optional optimization, it
is now a key system design requirement.
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The conventional widely used microcontrollers platforms were designed primarily for deterministic control
applications. While they are highly reliable and easy to deploy, they lack combined architectural features such
as optimized clock gating techniques suitable for edge computing, adaptive voltage scaling, or approximate
arithmetic units. As edge workloads scale, these hardware limitations increasingly compromise system
throughput and efficiency.
The emergence of the open RISC-V instruction set architecture has provided researchers with a flexible
foundation for experimenting with custom microarchitectures [1]. Recent work has shown that tailored RISC-V
cores can significantly improve energy efficiency through architectural modifications [2], [3]. Techniques such
as clock gating reduce unnecessary switching activity, while Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
exploits the quadratic dependence of dynamic power on supply voltage [4].
Dynamic power in Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuits is described by:
𝑷
𝒅𝒚𝒏
= 𝜶. 𝑪. 𝑽
𝟐
. 𝑭
where switching activity (𝜶), capacitance (𝑪), supply voltage (𝑽), and operating frequency (𝑭) determine power
consumption. Reducing voltage yields substantial energy savings, especially in low-frequency edge workloads.
Approximate computing has also gained traction as a method for improving energy efficiency in error-tolerant
applications such as signal filtering or matrix operations [5], [6]. Instead of computing with full precision,
approximate arithmetic units intentionally reduce accuracy within acceptable margins to lower switching activity
and hardware complexity.
Although each of these techniques has been studied independently, there is limited research evaluating them
collectively within a unified microcontroller-style SoC. This study addresses that gap by designing a
Verilogbased RISC-V SoC and systematically evaluating six architectural configurations under identical
workloads. The goal is not merely to reduce power, but to understand the tradeoffs between energy, performance,
and hardware cost in edge-oriented systems.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Energy-efficient processor design has been a dynamic field of research, particularly in the context of Internet of
Things (IoT) and edge computing. Benini et al. [2] explored ultra low power RISC V cores operating near
threshold voltage, demonstrating significant energy reductions for embedded workloads. In the same way,
Palossi et al. [3] introduced adaptive RISC-V microcontrollers that dynamically adjust operating conditions
based on workload intensity. Clock gating remains one of the most widely adopted power-saving techniques in
both (Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) designs. By
disabling clock signals to inactive modules, unnecessary switching activity is minimized [4]. In FPGA
implementations, careful gating strategies have shown measurable reductions in dynamic power without major
architectural changes.
DVFS continues to be a powerful mechanism for energy control. Since dynamic power scales with 𝑉
2
, voltage
reduction produces substantial savings [7]. Recent research in 2025 integrates lightweight DVFS controllers
within RISC-V systems for adaptive power management [8]. Approximate computing has gained renewed
interest in edge systems. Han and Orshansky [5] demonstrated how reduced-precision arithmetic units can lower
energy consumption in digital signal processing. More recent work extends these ideas to RISC-V cores with
configurable precision levels [9]. Partial reconfiguration in FPGA-based systems provides another dimension of
energy optimization, allowing unused modules to be dynamically disabled or replaced [10]. Regardless of these
advances, most prior work evaluates individual techniques in isolation. Few studies present a complete,
controlled comparison of multiple architectural energy-minimization strategies within a single embedded SoC.
This research contributes a structured experimental framework that evaluates baseline and optimized designs
under consistent workloads and metrics.
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METHODOLOGY
SoC Architecture Design
The proposed SoC design utilizes a streamlined, microcontroller centric architecture. This design prioritizes
efficient execution and predictable hardware behavior, structured around the following core components of the
microcontroller:
1. RV32I RISC-V Processor Core: When it comes to Instruction Set of the system is an in order RISC-V
core, implemented in Verilog. By adopting the RV32I base integer instruction set, the core design of the
device is engineered to minimize the amount of physical space it takes up, resulting in a smaller, more
space efficient unit while maintaining compatibility with a modern, open-standard compiler toolchain.
2. Integrated Memory Subsystem: To facilitate low-latency access, the SoC follows the Harvard
Architecture on which separate on chip instruction and data memories are implemented. These memory
components are implemented using FPGA Block RAM (BRAM), providing high speed, single cycle data
retrieval essential for real time edge processing.
3. Essential I/O Peripherals: A standard array of peripherals including (Universal Asynchronous Receiver
and Transmitter) UART for serial communication, Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) , General Purpose
Input/Output (GPIO) for digital interfacing, and a hardware Timer / Counter enables the SoC to interact
seamlessly with external sensors and actuators.
4. Clock and Power Management: The architecture includes a dedicated clock management module to
regulate system timing. For specialized, low power variants, an integrated power control unit manages
energy distribution, allowing for more aggressive power saving strategies. The SoC logic supports DVFS,
the FPGA implementation utilizes Frequency Scaling via clock dividers, while the Voltage Scaling
component is modelled analytically using the V
2
relationship to estimate ASIC-level savings.
In its baseline configuration, the design emphasizes simplicity and stability, operating under a single global clock
domain without active power gating or frequency scaling.
Figure 1: Typical SOC Architecture
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The system is designed inspiring the Harvard Architecture, separating instruction and data paths to allow for
parallel access. It illustrates a specialized 32-bit RISC-V processor environment tailored for executing
precompiled hex files.
System Data Flow occurs with respect to the following machine cycle.
• Instruction Fetch: The PC sends an address to the Instruction Memory.
• Decoding: The fetched instruction is passed to the Decoder, which translates the 32-bit RISC-V
command.
• Execution: The Decoder triggers the necessary Registers and ALU operations within the Core.
• Data Access: The CPU Core communicates with the Data Memory to read or write information as
dictated by the program logic.
Figure 2: System Data Flow
Figure 3: RISC-V Instruction Generation and Execution
Experimental Configuration
To evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of the proposed RV32I SoC, the design will be deployed across six
distinct architectural configurations. Each configuration targets a specific balance between computational
throughput and energy economy.
Baseline (With no Optimization)
The Baseline configuration serves as the control group for all subsequent benchmarks. In this mode, the entire
SoC operates under a single, continuous global clock domain. There is no logic to disable inactive modules, and
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the ALU always maintains full 32-bit precision. This setup represents the maximum power consumption profile
but provides the most stable and predictable timing for real time applications.
Clock Gating Only
This configuration enables detailed fine level management of clock gating at the Register Transfer Level (RTL).
By means of integrated clock gating (ICG) cells, the system dynamically shuts off the clock signal to functional
blocks such as the UART, Timer, or specific Register File ports whenever they are not actively processing data.
This reduces dynamic power dissipation by minimizing the switching activity of the internal nodes.
Sleep Modes Only
In this design variant, the SoC implements a stratified Power Management State Machine. The system core can
engage a Deep Sleep or Idle state during periods of inactivity (e.g., waiting for an external GPIO interrupt).
While the memory subsystem remains powered to retain state, the RISC-V pipeline is effectively frozen. This is
particularly effective for edge sensing applications that spend the majority of their operational life in a "listen"
mode.
Approximate ALU Only
The Approximate ALU configuration explores the trade-off between mathematical accuracy and hardware
resources. Instead of computing with full precision, this design intentionally reduces accuracy within acceptable
margins to lower switching activity and hardware complexity. Specifically, this architecture replaces the standard
32-bit integer units with the following:
• Multiplier Truncation: The multiplier employs a Static Segment Method (SSM), where the lower 12
bits of the partial products are truncated before summation. This significantly reduces the number of
full adders in the multiplier tree.
• LSB Masking: The adder utilizes a Lower-Part OR Adder (LOA) logic. In this approach, the 8 least
significant bits (LSBs) are computed using a bitwise OR operation, eliminating the carry-propagation
chain for those bits.
• Targeted Workloads: This optimization is applied to error-tolerant tasks like the 32-tap FIR Filter. By
prioritizing high-order bit precision, the design reduces the critical path and logic gates (LUTs) while
maintaining a performance degradation of less than 10%
Simulated DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling)
This mode simulates the effects of DVFS by defining three specific operating points (P-states). The system can
transition between:
• High Performance: Maximum frequency and nominal voltage.
• Balanced: Medium frequency for steady-state processing.
• Eco: Minimum frequency and reduced voltage for background tasks. By scaling the frequency (f) and
voltage (V) together, the power savings follow a cubic relationship, offering the most drastic
reductions in energy consumption for varying workloads.
Combined Policy (Adaptive Power Controller)
The final configuration is a sophisticated, featuring an Integrated Adaptive Power Controller. This unit
acts as a hardware orchestrator, monitoring the instruction stream and peripheral demand in real time. It
intelligently combines the previously mentioned techniques into a single cohesive policy. It ensures that
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the SoC only draws the exact amount of power required for the immediate task, representing the
philosophy of "lean execution".
Benchmark
To evaluate the effectiveness of the power saving strategies implemented and the architectural efficiency of the
SoC, a meticulous benchmarking methodology is employed. This process involves executing specific real world
workloads and capturing hardware level metrics to quantify the trade offs between performance and energy
consumption.
Workload Selection
The benchmarks consist of two representative kernels that reflect the demands of modern edge computing:
1. Integer Matrix Multiplication (N=32, 64): This workload serves as an agent for compute-intensive
workloads, such as those found in neural network layers or coordinate transformations. By scaling the
matrix size from 32 × 32 to 64 × 64, the system's ability to handle increasing computational complexity
and memory access patterns is assessed.
2. 32-tap FIR Filter: Representing a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) workload, this benchmark involves
continuous multiply accumulate (MAC) operations. It simulates real time data streaming scenarios
common in sensor fusion and audio processing at the edge.
Compilation and Loading Process
The software environment is regulated to ensure results are comparable across all hardware configurations.
• The high level programs (C/C++) are compiled using the RISCV32 GCC toolchain within an Ubuntu
environment.
• The generated code after the compilation conforms to the RV32I base integer instruction set. The all
generated machine instructions belong exclusively to the standard 32-bit integer operations defined
within the base RISC-V ISA.
• The resulting binary files are converted into .hex files, which are then loaded into the instruction
memory by simulating a typical embedded firmware boot sequence.
Evaluation Metrics
To provide a holistic view of the SoC's efficiency, data is collected across three primary categories:
Table 1: Evaluation Metrics
Metric
Description
Total Energy (Joules)
The cumulative power consumed over the duration of the workload, capturing the
impact of both static leakage and dynamic switching.
Cycles per Workload
A measure of execution time and throughput, identifying any performance overhead
introduced by power management logic
Resource Utilization
The hardware cost in terms of LUTs (Look-Up Tables), Registers, and BRAM blocks
used on the FPGA for each configuration.
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Preliminary Results
To establish a reference point for the proposed energy-efficient variants, a baseline simulation of the RV32I SoC
was conducted using the Xilinx Vivado environment. The primary objective was to validate the functional
correctness of the instruction decoder and the execution pipeline under standard workloads.
The core was tested using a sequence of immediate arithmetic instructions compiled via the RISCV32 GCC
toolchain. As shown in Table 2, the hex-to-assembly mapping confirms that the SoC correctly translates and
executes the 32-bit RISC-V commands. This confirms the hardware’s compatibility with the standard RV32I
ISA.
Table 2: A piece of the sample instructions loaded to the Instruction Memory
Hex Code
Assembly Instruction
Description
00200093
addi x1, x0, 2
x1 = 2
00300113
addi x2, x0, 3
x2 = 3
00400193
addi x3, x0, 4
x3 = 4
00500213
addi x4, x0, 5
x4 = 5
00600293
addi x5, x0, 6
x5 = 6
00700313
addi x6, x0, 7
x6 = 7
00800393
addi x7, x0, 8
x7 = 8
The execution of a 30-instruction test kernel provided the first quantitative performance data for the architecture.
The simulation metrics extracted from the Vivado Tcl Console (see Figure 4) reveal the following baseline
characteristics:
• Cycles per Instruction (CPI): The system achieved a CPI of 1.033, indicating high efficiency in the single-
cycle execution of integer operations.
• Execution Latency: The average instruction latency was measured at 10.33 ns, providing a timing foundation
for real-time edge processing requirements.
• Throughput: The total execution of 30 instructions was completed in 31 cycles, validating the predictable
hardware behaviour of the Harvard-based memory subsystem.
Figure 4: Performance Metrics for the Baseline SOC
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Figure 5: Functional Verification Waveform Log for RISC-V Register State Transitions
Significance
This research provides a systematic and practical evaluation of energy-efficient architectural techniques within
a unified SoC framework. Instead of analyzing isolated optimizations, it quantifies how multiple strategies
interact under realistic workloads.
The expected contributions include:
• Empirical Power Analysis:
o Clear measurement of switching activity reduction through Integrated Clock Gating (ICG) cells.
• Mathematical Validation:
o Validation of quadratic energy savings from DVFS based on the dynamic power formulation.
• Accuracy-Power Tradeoffs:
o Quantification of precision–energy tradeoffs by implementing specific hardware truncations (e.g., LSB
masking) in approximate arithmetic units.
• Hardware Overhead:
o Detailed area analysis of the hardware cost in terms of LUTs, Registers, and BRAM blocks for each power-
management variant.
• Policy Synergy:
o Demonstration of the combined optimization synergy achieved by the Integrated Adaptive Power Controller.
Preliminary expectations suggest:
• Baseline Performance:
o Functional validation of the RV32I core with a measured CPI of 1.033 and instruction latency of
10.33 ns in a simulated environment.
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• Switching Efficiency:
o A 20–40% dynamic power reduction through RTL-level clock gating.
• Error-Tolerant Savings:
o An acceptable performance degradation of less than 10% for approximate FIR filtering while significantly
reducing the multiplier's critical path.
• Optimized Energy-per-Operation:
o Achievement of the best energy-per-operation profile under the adaptive "lean execution" combined policy.
While this study utilizes an FPGA-based framework for reproducible methodology, the RTL is designed for high-
portability to ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) manufacturing. Transitioning to a dedicated silicon
process (e.g., 65nm CMOS) would allow for the physical implementation of True Voltage Scaling and the use of
Multi-Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) to further minimize leakage in sleep modes. This roadmap ensures the
findings provide a verified foundation for next-generation, mass-produced energy-aware embedded processors.
CONCLUSION
This research presents the design and optimization of a Verilog-based RISC-V SoC tailored for
energyconstrained edge computing environments. By systematically evaluating a suite of architectural strategies
including RTL-level clock gating, stratified sleep modes, approximate arithmetic units, and simulated DVFS this
study quantifies the critical tradeoffs between energy consumption, execution latency, and hardware area.
Preliminary experimental results from Xilinx Vivado simulations validate the functional integrity of the baseline
RV32I core, demonstrating a stable CPI of 1.033 and an average instruction latency of 10.33 ns. The
implementation of approximate computing through 12-bit multiplier truncation and 8-bit LSB masking in the
ALU provides a pathway for significant power reduction in error-tolerant workloads, such as FIR filtering, with
a performance degradation of less than 10%. Furthermore, the introduction of an Integrated Adaptive Power
Controller demonstrates that a synergized "lean execution" policy can yield superior energy efficiency compared
to isolated optimizations.
While this framework provides a reproducible FPGA-based methodology, it also serves as a verified foundation
for future ASIC implementation, where true voltage scaling and multi-threshold CMOS techniques can be fully
realized. Ultimately, the outcomes of this research offer actionable design insights for the development of
nextgeneration, low-power embedded architectures, bridging the gap between high-performance processing and
the stringent energy requirements of the intelligent edge.
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