Near-threshold voltage (NTV) design opportunities and challenges

Moore's Law will continue providing abundance of transistors for integration, only to be limited by the energy consumption. Near threshold voltage (NTV) operation has potential to improve energy efficiency by an order of magnitude. We discuss design techniques necessary for reliable operation o...

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Published inProceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference pp. 1153 - 1158
Main Authors Kaul, Himanshu, Anders, Mark, Hsu, Steven, Agarwal, Amit, Krishnamurthy, Ram, Borkar, Shekhar
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 03.06.2012
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Hardware > Integrated circuits
Hardware > Very large scale integration design
NTV
subthreshold
performance
power
energy
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ISBN1450311997
9781450311991
DOI10.1145/2228360.2228572

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Summary:Moore's Law will continue providing abundance of transistors for integration, only to be limited by the energy consumption. Near threshold voltage (NTV) operation has potential to improve energy efficiency by an order of magnitude. We discuss design techniques necessary for reliable operation over a wide range of supply voltage---from nominal down to subthreshold region. The system designed for NTV can dynamically select modes of operation, from high performance, to high energy efficiency, to the lowest power.
ISBN:1450311997
9781450311991
DOI:10.1145/2228360.2228572