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2009
ACM
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Tuning-friendly body bias clustering for compensating random variability in subthreshold circuits
Post-fabrication tuning for mitigating manufacturing variability is receiving a significant attention. To reduce leakage increase involved in performance compensation by body bia...
Koichi Hamamoto, Masanori Hashimoto, Yukio Mitsuya...
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2009
ACM
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Transaction-based adaptive dynamic voltage scaling for interactive applications
In an interactive embedded system, special task execution patterns and scheduling constraints exist due to frequent human-computer interactions. This paper proposes a transaction-...
Xia Zhao, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen
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2009
ACM
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Enabling ultra low voltage system operation by tolerating on-chip cache failures
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...
Amin Ansari, Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Scott ...
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2009
ACM
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Way guard: a segmented counting bloom filter approach to reducing energy for set-associative caches
The design trend of caches in modern processors continues to increase their capacity with higher associativity to cope with large data footprint and take advantage of feature size...
Mrinmoy Ghosh, Emre Özer, Simon Ford, Stuart ...
ISLPED
2009
ACM
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Online work maximization under a peak temperature constraint
Increasing power densities and the high cost of low thermal resistance packages and cooling solutions make it impractical to design processors for worst-case temperature scenarios...
Thidapat Chantem, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Robert P. Dick
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2009
ACM
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Serial sub-threshold circuits for ultra-low-power systems
This paper explores the use of serial circuits for ultra-low-power sub-threshold systems. A serial system leads to a smaller design and higher utilization, yielding 40% active ene...
Sudhanshu Khanna, Benton H. Calhoun
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2009
ACM
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PPT: joint performance/power/thermal management of DRAM memory for multi-core systems
With the popularity of multi-core architecture, to sustain the memory demands from different cores, the memory system is expected to grow significantly in both speed and capacit...
Chung-Hsiang Lin, Chia-Lin Yang, Ku-Jei King
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2009
ACM
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Behavior-level observability don't-cares and application to low-power behavioral synthesis
Many techniques for power management employed in advanced RTL synthesis tools rely explicitly or implicitly on observability don’t-care (ODC) conditions. In this paper we presen...
Jason Cong, Bin Liu, Zhiru Zhang
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2009
ACM
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Power-saving color transformation of mobile graphical user interfaces on OLED-based displays
Emerging organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based displays have drastically different power consumption when displaying different colors, due to their emissive nature. They bring...
Mian Dong, Yung-Seok Kevin Choi, Lin Zhong