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Abstract | ||
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This paper presents methods for efficient power minimization at circuit and micro-architectural levels. The potential energy savings are strongly related to the energy profile of a circuit. These savings are obtained by using gate sizing, supply voltage, and threshold voltage optimization, to minimize energy consumption subject to a delay constraint. The true power minimization is achieved when the energy reduction potentials of all tuning variables are balanced. We derive the sensitivity of energy to delay for each of the tuning variables connecting its energy saving potential to the physical properties of the circuit. This helps to develop understanding of optimization performance and identify the most efficient techniques for energy reduction. The optimizations are applied to some examples that span typical circuit topologies including inverter chains, SRAM decoders, and adders. At a delay of 20% larger than the minimum, energy savings of 40% to 70% are possible, indicating that achieving peak performance is expensive in terms of energy. Energy savings of about 50% can be achieved without delay penalty with the balancing of sizes, supplies, and thresholds. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2002 | 10.1145/774572.774578 | ICCAD |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
energy reduction,energy saving,delay constraint,energy consumption subject,true power minimization,delay penalty,tuning variable,typical circuit,potential energy saving,energy reduction potential,energy profile,network topology,low power electronics,logic gates,integrated circuit design,logic design,potential energy,physical properties,minimisation,threshold voltage,adders | Inverter,Adder,Computer science,Voltage,Energy profile,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Integrated circuit design,Potential energy,Energy consumption,Low-power electronics | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7803-7607-2 | 45 | 5.75 |
References | Authors | |
8 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert W. Brodersen | 1 | 1857 | 401.31 |
| Mark Horowitz | 2 | 6374 | 1543.34 |
| Dejan Markovic | 3 | 811 | 115.54 |
| Bosko Nikolic | 4 | 583 | 90.17 |
| Vladimir Stojanovic | 5 | 1410 | 155.48 |