Variation-Aware Adaptive Voltage Scaling for Digital CMOS Circuits

• Main Author: Wirnshofer, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, 41
• Subjects: 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...