Sustainable High-Performance Instruction Selection for Superscalar Processors

Sustainability is a grand societal challenge, which requires our urgent attention given the significant and growing contribution of electronic devices to global warming. The environmental footprint of an electronic device comprises of two major contributors: (1) the embodied footprint due to raw material extraction, manufacturing, assembly, end-of-life-processing, and (2) the operational footprint due to device use during its lifetime. Sustainable hardware design hence requires a holistic approach that encompasses the entire lifetime of an electronic device.