Z. Kedem, V. Mooney, Kirthi Krishna Muntimadugu, K. Palem
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Abstract
Given a 16-bit or 32-bit overclocked ripple-carry adder, we minimize error by allocating multiple supply voltages to the gates. We solve the error minimization problem for a fixed energy budget using a binned geometric program solution (BGPS). A solution found via BGPS outperforms the two best prior approaches, uniform voltage scaling and biased voltage scaling, reducing error by as much as a factor of 2.58X and by a median of 1.58X in 90nm transistor technology.