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...
The ITRS (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) predicts aggressive scaling down of device size, transistor threshold voltage and oxide thickness to meet growing de...
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...
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...
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....