Variation-Aware Adaptive Voltage Scaling for Digital CMOS Circuits

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wirnshofer, Martin (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, 41
• Θέματα: Physics.; Energy efficiency.; Computer simulation.; Electronic circuits.; Control engineering.; Electronic Circuits and Devices.; Circuits and Systems.; Simulation and Modeling.; Control.; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings).

Increasing performance demands in integrated circuits, together with limited energy budgets, force IC designers to find new ways of saving power. One innovative way is the presented adaptive voltage scaling scheme, which tunes the supply voltage according to the present process, voltage and temperat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Sources of Variation
• 3 Related Work
• 4 Adaptive Voltage Scaling by In-situ Delay Monitoring
• 5 Design of In-situ Delay Monitors
• 6 Modeling the AVS Control Loop
• 7 Evaluation of the Pre-Error AVS Approach
• 8 Conclusion
• A Appendix
• A.1 Mathematical Derivation: Path Delay under Local Variations
• A.2 2-D DCT Transform
• References.