On-chip L1 and L2 caches represent a sizeable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. In deep sub-micron technology, the subthreshold leakage power is becoming...
The need to perform early design studies that combine architectural simulation with power estimation has become critical as power has become a design constraint whose importance h...
Nam Sung Kim, Taeho Kgil, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M...
Reducing power dissipation is one of the most principle subjects in VLSI design today. Scaling causes subthreshold leakage currents to become a large component of total power diss...
Mohab Anis, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed I. Elmasry, S...
Leakage power is a major concern in current and future microprocessor designs. In this paper, we explore the potential of architectural techniques to reduce leakage through power-...
Switching activity-generated power-supply grid-noise presents a major obstacle to the reduction of supply voltage in future generation semiconductor technologies. A popular techniq...