R. Pawlowski, Evgeni Krimer, Joseph Crop, J. Postman, N. M. Madani, M. Erez, P. Chiang
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引用次数: 31
Abstract
Near-threshold computing exhibits improved energy efficiency compared to nominal super-threshold operation [1, 2]. Two critical bottlenecks prevent mainstream adoption of low-VDD operation: degraded logic delay resulting in significantly lower throughput than at super-threshold, and excessive, unpredictable delay variation caused by increased sensitivity to process and dynamic variations.