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MICRO
2007
IEEE
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Mitigating Parameter Variation with Dynamic Fine-Grain Body Biasing
Parameter variation is detrimental to a processor’s frequency and leakage power. One proposed technique to mitigate it is Fine-Grain Body Biasing (FGBB), where different parts o...
Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Abhishek Tiwari, Jose...
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
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Multi-Vth Level Conversion Circuits for Multi-VDD Systems
— Employing multiple supply voltages (multi-VDD) is attractive for reducing the power consumption without sacrificing the speed of an integrated circuit (IC). In order to transfe...
Sherif A. Tawfik, Volkan Kursun
ICIP
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Buffer Constrained Proactive Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Video Decoding Systems
Significant power savings can be achieved on voltage/frequency configurable platforms by dynamically adapting the frequency and voltage according to the workload (complexity). Vid...
Emrah Akyol, Mihaela van der Schaar
CODES
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scheduling and voltage scaling for energy/reliability trade-offs in fault-tolerant time-triggered embedded systems
In this paper we present an approach to the scheduling and voltage scaling of low-power fault-tolerant hard real-time applications mapped on distributed heterogeneous embedded sys...
Paul Pop, Kåre Harbo Poulsen, Viacheslav Izo...
SOCC
2008
IEEE
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Energy minimization using a greedy randomized heuristic for the voltage assignment problem in NoC
— Scaling down the voltage levels of the processing elements (PEs) in a Network-on-Chip (NoC) can significantly reduce the computation energy consumption with an overhead of the...
Pavel Ghosh, Arunabha Sen
ISQED
2008
IEEE
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Reliability-Aware Optimization for DVS-Enabled Real-Time Embedded Systems
—Power and energy consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern computational systems. Dynamic Voltage Scheduling (DVS) has been provably one of t...
Foad Dabiri, Navid Amini, Mahsan Rofouei, Majid Sa...
DATE
2008
IEEE
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A Single-supply True Voltage Level Shifter
When a signal traverses on-chip voltage domains, a level shifter is required. Inverters can handle a high to low voltage shift with minimal leakage. For a low to high voltage leve...
Rajesh Garg, Gagandeep Mallarapu, Sunil P. Khatri
ISLPED
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 ...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Scheduled voltage scaling for increasing lifetime in the presence of NBTI
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) is a leading reliability concern for integrated circuits (ICs). It gradually increases the threshold voltages of PMOS transistors, ...
Lide Zhang, Robert P. Dick
MICRO
2009
IEEE
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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...