Parameter variation is detrimental to a processor’s frequency and leakage power. One proposed technique to mitigate it is Fine-Grain Body Biasing (FGBB), where different parts o...
Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Abhishek Tiwari, Jose...
—Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) provides power savings for systems with varying performance requirements. One low overhead implementation of DVS uses PMOS power switches to connec...
Liang Di, Mateja Putic, John Lach, Benton H. Calho...
Abstract— This paper presents circuits that enable dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) for finegrained chip multi-processors to reduce both dynamic and leakage power di...
Simultaneous switching noise (SSN) has become an important issue in the design of the internal on-chip power distribution networks in current very large scale integration/ultra lar...
Enabled by the continuous advancement in fabrication technology, present day synchronous microprocessors include more than 100 million transistors and have clock speeds well in ex...