Efficient Design of Variation-Resilient Ultra-Low Energy Digital Processors [electronic resource] /
Reyserhove, Hans.author.
Dehaene, Wim.author.
This book enables readers to achieve ultra-low energy digital system performance. The author’s main focus is the energy consumption of microcontroller architectures in digital (sub)-systems. The book covers a broad range of topics extensively: from circuits through design strategy to system architectures. The result is a set of techniques and a context to realize minimum energy digital systems. Several prototype silicon implementations are discussed, which put the proposed techniques to the test. The achieved results demonstrate an extraordinary combination of variation-resilience, high speed performance and ultra-low energy. Presents a full bottom-up micro-electronics approach: circuit-level, design strategy and CAD automation, architecture optimization Motivates discussion with simulation results and/or measurements in an advanced nanometer CMOS process Compares traditional circuit/design/architecture techniques and state-of-the-art, setting the landscape of current best performance and how it can be improved.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Energy-Efficient Processors: Challenges and Solutions -- Chapter 2. Near-Threshold Operation: Technology, Building Blocks and Architecture -- Chapter 3. Efficient VLSI Design Flow -- Chapter 4. Ultra-Low Voltage Microcontrollers -- Chapter 5. Error Detection and Correction -- Chapter 6. Timing Error-Aware Microcontroller -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
This book enables readers to achieve ultra-low energy digital system performance. The author’s main focus is the energy consumption of microcontroller architectures in digital (sub)-systems. The book covers a broad range of topics extensively: from circuits through design strategy to system architectures. The result is a set of techniques and a context to realize minimum energy digital systems. Several prototype silicon implementations are discussed, which put the proposed techniques to the test. The achieved results demonstrate an extraordinary combination of variation-resilience, high speed performance and ultra-low energy. Presents a full bottom-up micro-electronics approach: circuit-level, design strategy and CAD automation, architecture optimization Motivates discussion with simulation results and/or measurements in an advanced nanometer CMOS process Compares traditional circuit/design/architecture techniques and state-of-the-art, setting the landscape of current best performance and how it can be improved.
Electronic circuits.
Signal processing.
Image processing.
Speech processing systems.
Electronics.
Microelectronics.
Circuits and Systems.
Signal, Image and Speech Processing.
Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.