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Title | ||
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Ultra-Low Energy Data Driven Computing Using Asynchronous Micropipelines and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Relays |
Abstract | ||
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Asynchronous logic and power gating are promising techniques for low duty cycle applications which need maximal energy efficiency, which are becoming more common-place with the popularity of wireless and embedded systems. This paper investigates the potential use of Nano/Micro- Electro- Mechanical (N/MEM) switches as the means of power gating asynchronous computation. A systematic optimization of the N/MEMS parameters is performed using finite element analysis (FEA) in the multiphysics COMSOL tool. An asynchronous FIR filter with a 4-phase bundled-data handshake protocol is designed and implemented in the 90nm technology node. The N/MEMS switches are comparatively studied with conventional sleep transistors in a system where both the computation and the timing controls for the asynchronous FIR circuits are power gated appropriately. It is demonstrated that our N/MEMS solution offers a 69% energy improvement when 32-tap FIR filter is power gated at a data rate of 1KHz compared to a 39% savings realized by using sleep transistors in the same design. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1109/ISVLSI.2017.36 | 2017 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
M/NEMS,Power gating,Asynchronous | Asynchronous communication,Logic gate,Multiphysics,Duty cycle,Electronic engineering,Power gating,Engineering,Electronic circuit,Transistor,Electrical engineering,Asynchronous circuit | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-5090-6763-3 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
12 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haider Alrudainy | 1 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Andrey Mokhov | 2 | 136 | 26.57 |
| Fei Xia | 3 | 7 | 1.83 |
| Alex Yakovlev | 4 | 516 | 64.23 |