MICRO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
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...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Employing multiple supply voltages (multi-VDD) is attractive for reducing the power consumption without sacrificing the speed of an integrated circuit (IC). In order to transfe...
ICIP
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Significant power savings can be achieved on voltage/frequency configurable platforms by dynamically adapting the frequency and voltage according to the workload (complexity). Vid...
CODES
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper we present an approach to the scheduling and voltage scaling of low-power fault-tolerant hard real-time applications mapped on distributed heterogeneous embedded sys...
SOCC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Scaling down the voltage levels of the processing elements (PEs) in a Network-on-Chip (NoC) can significantly reduce the computation energy consumption with an overhead of the...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Power and energy consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern computational systems. Dynamic Voltage Scheduling (DVS) has been provably one of t...
DATE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
When a signal traverses on-chip voltage domains, a level shifter is required. Inverters can handle a high to low voltage shift with minimal leakage. For a low to high voltage leve...
ISLPED
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Extreme technology integration in the sub-micron regime comes with a rapid rise in heat dissipation and power density for modern processors. Dynamic voltage scaling is a widely us...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) is a leading reliability concern for integrated circuits (ICs). It gradually increases the threshold voltages of PMOS transistors, ...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Voltage scaling is one of the most effective mechanisms to reduce microprocessor power consumption. However, the increased severity of manufacturing-induced parameter variations a...