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...
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...
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...
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...
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...