Modern CMOS manufacturing processes have significant variability, which necessitates guard banding to achieve reasonable yield. It is our thesis that variability should be addres...
Abstract—Supply voltage fluctuations that result from inductive noise are increasingly troublesome in modern microprocessors. A voltage “emergency”, i.e., a swing beyond tol...
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Glenn H. H...
This paper presents a quantification of the timing effects that advanced processor features like data and instruction cache, pipelines, branch prediction units and out-oforder ex...
Increasing dynamic variability with technology scaling has made it essential to incorporate large design-time timing margins to ensure yield and reliable operation. Online techniq...
Mihir R. Choudhury, Vikas Chandra, Kartik Mohanram...
Technology scaling of CMOS processes brings relatively faster transistors (gates) and slower interconnects (wires), making viable the addition of reconfigurability to increase per...