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DAC
2004
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Leakage in nano-scale technologies: mechanisms, impact and design considerations
The high leakage current in nano-meter regimes is becoming a significant portion of power dissipation in CMOS circuits as threshold voltage, channel length, and gate oxide thickne...
Amit Agarwal, Chris H. Kim, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, K...
DT
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Test Consideration for Nanometer-Scale CMOS Circuits
The ITRS (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) predicts aggressive scaling down of device size, transistor threshold voltage and oxide thickness to meet growing de...
Kaushik Roy, T. M. Mak, Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Performance, Energy, and Thermal Considerations for SMT and CMP Architectures
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) and chip multiprocessing (CMP) both allow a chip to achieve greater throughput, but their relative energy-efficiency and thermal properties are s...
Yingmin Li, David Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadro...
ICCD
2002
IEEE
93views Hardware» more  ICCD 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Impact of Scaling on the Effectiveness of Dynamic Power Reduction Schemes
Power is considered to be the major limiter to the design of more faster and complex processors in the near future. In order to address this challenge, a combination of process, c...
David Duarte, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane I...
CASES
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Multiple sleep mode leakage control for cache peripheral circuits in embedded processors
This paper proposes a combination of circuit and architectural techniques to maximize leakage power reduction in embedded processor on-chip caches. It targets cache peripheral cir...
Houman Homayoun, Mohammad A. Makhzan, Alexander V....