DATE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents a method of dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) that tackles both switching and leakage power with combined Vdd/Vbs scaling and gives minimum average energy consumpt...
ISLPED
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper explores the use of serial circuits for ultra-low-power sub-threshold systems. A serial system leads to a smaller design and higher utilization, yielding 40% active ene...
DATE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—1As technology scales, the aging effect caused by Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major reliability concern for circuit designers. On the other hand, r...
ISQED
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper revisits and extends a general linear programming(LP) formulation to exploit multiple knobs such as multi-Lgate footprint-compatible libraries and post-layout Lgateb...
ISQED
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract— As the semiconductor technology continues its marching toward the deep sub-micron domain, the strong relation between leakage current and temperature becomes critical i...
ISQED
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
Leakage power has grown significantly and is a major challenge in SoC design. Among SoC's components, clock distribution network power accounts for a large portion of chip po...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2003
IEEE
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...
ICCD
2004
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2004
IEEE
As frequencies and feature size scale faster than operating voltages, power density is increasing in each processor generation. Power density and the cost of removing the heat it ...
ICCD
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Recent studies indicate that a considerable amount of an L2 cache leakage power is dissipated in its peripheral circuits, e.g., decoders, word-lines and I/O drivers. In additio...
VLSID
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
Low standby power dissipation is the primary need for most of the wireless applications for prolonged battery life. Traditionally ASIC solutions currently address either high densi...