Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling
Energy efficiency of electronic circuits is a critical concern in a wide range of applications from mobile multi-media to biomedical monitoring. An added challenge is that many of these applications have dynamic workloads. To reduce the energy consumption under these variable computation requirement...
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| author | Finchelstein, Daniel Frederic Chandrakasan, Anantha P. Daly, Denis C. Kwong, Joyce Ramadass, Yogesh Kumar Sinangil, Mahmut Ersin Sze, Vivienne Verma, Naveen |
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| description | Energy efficiency of electronic circuits is a critical concern in a wide range of applications from mobile multi-media to biomedical monitoring. An added challenge is that many of these applications have dynamic workloads. To reduce the energy consumption under these variable computation requirements, the underlying circuits must function efficiently over a wide range of supply voltages. This paper presents voltage-scalable circuits such as logic cells, SRAMs, ADCs, and dc-dc converters. Using these circuits as building blocks, two different applications are highlighted. First, we describe an H.264/AVC video decoder that efficiently scales between QCIF and 1080p resolutions, using a supply voltage varying from 0.5 V to 0.85 V. Second, we describe a 0.3 V 16-bit micro-controller with on-chip SRAM, where the supply voltage is generated efficiently by an integrated dc-dc converter. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/699392022-10-02T06:24:20Z Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling Finchelstein, Daniel Frederic Chandrakasan, Anantha P. Daly, Denis C. Kwong, Joyce Ramadass, Yogesh Kumar Sinangil, Mahmut Ersin Sze, Vivienne Verma, Naveen Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microsystems Technology Laboratories Chandrakasan, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Anantha P. Daly, Denis C. Kwong, Joyce Ramadass, Yogesh Kumar Sinangil, Mahmut Ersin Sze, Vivienne Verma, Naveen Energy efficiency of electronic circuits is a critical concern in a wide range of applications from mobile multi-media to biomedical monitoring. An added challenge is that many of these applications have dynamic workloads. To reduce the energy consumption under these variable computation requirements, the underlying circuits must function efficiently over a wide range of supply voltages. This paper presents voltage-scalable circuits such as logic cells, SRAMs, ADCs, and dc-dc converters. Using these circuits as building blocks, two different applications are highlighted. First, we describe an H.264/AVC video decoder that efficiently scales between QCIF and 1080p resolutions, using a supply voltage varying from 0.5 V to 0.85 V. Second, we describe a 0.3 V 16-bit micro-controller with on-chip SRAM, where the supply voltage is generated efficiently by an integrated dc-dc converter. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Texas Instruments Incorporated (Texas Instruments Graduate Women’s Fellowship for Leadership in Microelectronics) Intel Corporation (Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Program) Texas Instruments Incorporated Nokia Corporation Semiconductor Research Corporation . Focus Center for Circuit and System Solutions (C2S2) United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 2012-04-04T20:34:53Z 2012-04-04T20:34:53Z 2010-01 2009-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0018-9219 1558-2256 INSPEC Accession Number: 11087576 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69939 Chandrakasan, A.P. et al. “Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling.” Proceedings of the IEEE 98.2 (2010): 191–214. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. © 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5977-2748 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4841-3990 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2009.2033621 Proceedings of the IEEE Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Finchelstein, Daniel Frederic Chandrakasan, Anantha P. Daly, Denis C. Kwong, Joyce Ramadass, Yogesh Kumar Sinangil, Mahmut Ersin Sze, Vivienne Verma, Naveen Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling |
| title | Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling |
| title_full | Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling |
| title_fullStr | Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling |
| title_short | Technologies for Ultradynamic Voltage Scaling |
| title_sort | technologies for ultradynamic voltage scaling |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69939 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5977-2748 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4841-3990 |
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