This tutorial present the key aspects of design challenges and its solutions that are being experienced in VLSI design in the era of nano technology. The focus will be on design c...
: Static energy dissipation in cache memories will constitute an increasingly larger portion of total microprocessor energy dissipation due to nanoscale technology characteristics ...
: In a high performance microprocessor such as Digital's 300MHz Alpha 21164, the distribution of a high quality clock signal to all regions of the device is achieved using a c...
-- Designing for low power has become increasingly important in a wide variety of applications, including wireless telephony, mobile computing, high performance computing, and high...
This paper proposes the use of microprocessor performance counters for online measurement of complete system power consumption. While past studies have demonstrated the use of per...