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Supply Voltage Scalable System Design Using Self-Timed Circuits
Tampa, Florida February 20-February 21
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W. Kuang, University of Central Florida
J.S. Yuan, University of Central Florida
A. Ejnioui, University of Central Florida
Supply voltage scalable system design for low power is investigated using self-timed circuits in this paper. Two architectures are proposed to achieve supply voltage scalability, for preserved quality and energy-quality tradeoff respectively, In the fist architecture, the supply-voltage automatically tracks the input data rate of the data path so that the supply-voltage can be kept as small as possible while maintaining the speed requirement and processing quality. In the second one, further energy saving is achieved at the cost of signal-noise-ratio loss in digital signal processing when an ultra-low supply voltage is applied. Cadence simulation shows the effectiveness for both architectures. More than 40% to 70% power can be saved by introducing -15dB to -10 dB error in a case study: speech signal processing.
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W. Kuang, J.S. Yuan, A. Ejnioui, "Supply Voltage Scalable System Design Using Self-Timed Circuits," isvlsi, pp.161, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI'03), 2003
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