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2008
IEEE
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Temperature and Process Variations Aware Power Gating of Functional Units
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...
Deepa Kannan, Aviral Shrivastava, Vipin Mohan, Sar...
VLSID
2008
IEEE
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A Module Checking Based Converter Synthesis Approach for SoCs
Protocol conversion involves the use of a converter to control communication between two or more protocols such that desired system-level specifications can be satisfied. We invest...
Roopak Sinha, Partha S. Roop, Samik Basu
VLSID
2008
IEEE
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NBTI Degradation: A Problem or a Scare?
Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has been identified as a major and critical reliability issue for PMOS devices in nano-scale designs. It manifests as a negative thres...
Kewal K. Saluja, Shriram Vijayakumar, Warin Sootka...
VLSID
2008
IEEE
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Power Reduction of Functional Units Considering Temperature and Process Variations
Continuous technology scaling has resulted in an increase in both, the power density as well as the variation in device dimensions (process variations) of the manufactured process...
Deepa Kannan, Aviral Shrivastava, Sarvesh Bhardwaj...
VLSID
2008
IEEE
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Exhaustive Enumeration of Legal Custom Instructions for Extensible Processors
Today's customizable processors allow the designer to augment the base processor with custom accelerators. By choosing appropriate set of accelerators, designer can significa...
Nagaraju Pothineni, Anshul Kumar, Kolin Paul