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VLSID
2008
IEEE
142views VLSI» more  VLSID 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Temperature and Process Variations Aware Power Gating of Functional Units
Technology scaling has resulted in an exponential increase in the leakage power as well as the variations in leakage power of fabricated chips. Functional units (FUs), like Intege...
Deepa Kannan, Aviral Shrivastava, Vipin Mohan, Sar...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Deterministic Clock Gating for Microprocessor Power Reduction
With the scaling of technology and the need for higher performance and more functionality, power dissipation is becoming a major bottleneck for microprocessor designs. Pipeline ba...
Hai Li, Swarup Bhunia, Yiran Chen, T. N. Vijaykuma...
ISLPED
2004
ACM
139views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Eliminating voltage emergencies via microarchitectural voltage control feedback and dynamic optimization
Microprocessor designers use techniques such as clock gating to reduce power dissipation. An unfortunate side-effect of these techniques is the processor current fluctuations th...
Kim M. Hazelwood, David Brooks
ISCA
1995
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
Performance Evaluation of the PowerPC 620 Microarchitecture
The PowerPC 620TM microprocessor1 is the most recent and performance leading member of the PowerPCTM family. The 64-bit PowerPC 620 microprocessor employs a two-phase branch predi...
Trung A. Diep, Christopher Nelson, John Paul Shen
VEE
2006
ACM
178views Virtualization» more  VEE 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Impact of virtual execution environments on processor energy consumption and hardware adaptation
During recent years, microprocessor energy consumption has been surging and efforts to reduce power and energy have received a lot of attention. At the same time, virtual executio...
Shiwen Hu, Lizy Kurian John