The advance in semiconductor technologies presents the serious problem of parameter variations. They affect threshold voltage of transistors and thus circuit delay has variability...
Power gating is a technique for low power design in which whole sections of the chip are powered off when they are not needed, and powered back on when they are. Functional correct...
NBTI is one of the most important silicon reliability problems facing processor designers today. The impact of NBTI can be mitigated at both the circuit and microarchitecture leve...
ABSTRACT { Sub-micron technologies and the increasing size and complexity of integrated components have aggravated the eect of long interconnects and buses, compared to that of ga...
This paper describes the AccuPower toolset -- a set of simulation tools accurately estimating the power dissipation within a superscalar microprocessor. AccuPower uses a true hard...