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MICRO
2009
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Improving cache lifetime reliability at ultra-low voltages
Voltage scaling is one of the most effective mechanisms to reduce microprocessor power consumption. However, the increased severity of manufacturing-induced parameter variations a...
Zeshan Chishti, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Chris Wilkerso...
GLVLSI
2002
IEEE
106views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2002»
13 years 12 months ago
A low power direct digital frequency synthesizer with 60 dBc spectral purity
We present a low-power sine-output Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer (DDFS) realized in 0.18 µm CMOS that achieves 60 dBc spectral purity from DC to the Nyquist frequency. No ...
J. M. Pierre Langlois, Dhamin Al-Khalili
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
87views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2009»
13 years 4 months ago
Mitigation of intra-array SRAM variability using adaptive voltage architecture
SRAM cell design is driven by the need to satisfy static noise margin, write margin and read current margin (RCM) over all cells in the array in an energy-efficient manner. These ...
Ashish Kumar Singh, Ku He, Constantine Caramanis, ...
DAC
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Sign bit reduction encoding for low power applications
This paper proposes a low power technique, called SBR (Sign Bit Reduction) which may reduce the switching activity in multipliers as well as data buses. Utilizing the multipliers ...
M. Saneei, Ali Afzali-Kusha, Zainalabedin Navabi
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
CMOS Current-controlled Oscillators
— The work presented in this paper is about the design of current-controlled oscillators (ICO). Two ICOs are proposed. Aiming at reducing the duration of the short-circuit curren...
Junhong Zhao, Chunyan Wang