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Post Silicon Power/Performance Optimization in the Presence of ProcessVariations Using Individual Well Adaptive Body Biasing (IWABB)
San Jose, California March 22-March 24
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Justin Gregg, Colorado State University
Tom W. Chen, Hewlett Packard Co.
Continued scaling of silicon process technologies beyond the 90nm node will face problems due to within die process variations. The increasing relative magnitude of within die process variations will cause power-frequency distributions to widen, thus reducing manufacturing yields. Mitigating the effects of these process variations can be done by using a system of locally-generated body biases. This system allows for highly localized circuit optimizations with very little overhead in silicon area and routing resources. We present two algorithms to find near-optimal configurations of these biases which can be applied during postfabrication testing. The system can improve an initial yield of 12% to 73%.
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Justin Gregg, Tom W. Chen, "Post Silicon Power/Performance Optimization in the Presence of ProcessVariations Using Individual Well Adaptive Body Biasing (IWABB)," isqed, pp.453-458, 5th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'04), 2004
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