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2006
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Adaptive duty cycling for energy harvesting systems
Jason Hsu, Sadaf Zahedi, Aman Kansal, Mani B. Sriv...
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2006
ACM
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Considering process variations during system-level power analysis
Process variations will increasingly impact the operational characteristics of integrated circuits in nanoscale semiconductor technologies. Researchers have proposed various desig...
Saumya Chandra, Kanishka Lahiri, Anand Raghunathan...
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2006
ACM
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Power phase variation in a commercial server workload
Many techniques have been developed for adaptive power management of computing systems. These techniques rely on the presence of varying power phases to detect opportunities for a...
W. L. Bircher, L. K. John
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2006
ACM
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Integrated solar energy harvesting and storage
Nathaniel J. Guilar, Albert Chen, Travis Kleeburg,...
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2006
ACM
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Dynamic thermal clock skew compensation using tunable delay buffers
—The thermal gradients existing in high-performance circuits may significantly affect their timing behavior, in particular, by increasing the skew of the clock net and/or alteri...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Karthik Duraisami, Ashoka Vi...
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2006
ACM
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Sub-threshold design: the challenges of minimizing circuit energy
In this paper, we identify the key challenges that oppose subthreshold circuit design and describe fabricated chips that verify techniques for overcoming the challenges. Categorie...
Benton H. Calhoun, Alice Wang, Naveen Verma, Anant...
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2006
ACM
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Substituting associative load queue with simple hash tables in out-of-order microprocessors
Buffering more in-flight instructions in an out-of-order microprocessor is a straightforward and effective method to help tolerate the long latencies generally associated with ...
Alok Garg, Fernando Castro, Michael C. Huang, Dani...
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2006
ACM
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Low-power fanout optimization using MTCMOS and multi-Vt techniques
This paper addresses the problem of low-power fanout optimization. We show that due to neglecting short-circuit current, previous analytical techniques proposed to optimize the ar...
Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, Massoud Pedram
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2006
ACM
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Synergistic temperature and energy management in GALS processor architectures
We propose a synergistic temperature and energy management scheme for GALS processors. Localized DVS is applied in domains that contain hotspots, permitting other critical domains...
YongKang Zhu, David H. Albonesi
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2006
ACM
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Reducing power through compiler-directed barrier synchronization elimination
Interprocessor synchronization, while extremely important for ensuring execution correctness, can be very costly in terms of both power and performance overheads. Unfortunately, m...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Seung Woo Son