Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can
switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This …

Energy efficiency has now become the primary obstacle in scaling the performance of all
classes of computing systems. Low-voltage computing, specifically, near-threshold voltage …

Technological advancements in the silicon industry, as predicted by Moore's law, have
enabled integration of billions of transistors on a single chip. To exploit this high transistor …

In this paper, we define a configurable Software Defined Radio (SDR) baseband processor
design for the Internet of Things (IoT). We analyzed the fundamental algorithms in …

Supply voltage reduction is an effective approach to significantly reduce GPU energy
consumption. As the largest on-chip storage structure, the GPU register file becomes the …

High cost remains to be one of the primary obstacles for the commercialization of proton
exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). To simplify the fuel cell system and reduce cost …

Lowering the supply voltage to improve energy efficiency leads to higher load current and
elevated supply sensitivity. In this paper, we provide the first quantitative analysis of voltage …

Near-threshold computing is an effective strategy to reduce the power dissipation of deeply-
scaled CMOS logic circuits. However, near-threshold strategies exacerbate the impact of …

Ultralow-voltage (ULV) CMOS will be a core building block of highly energy efficient
electronics. Although the operation at the minimum energy point (MEP) is effective for ULP …

In-situ timing monitoring-based adaptive voltage frequency scaling (AVFS) is effective in
eliminating the timing margin. However, for wide-operating-range applications, one big …