This paper presents iRazor, a lightweight error detection and correction approach, to
suppress the cycle time margin that is traditionally added to very large scale integration …

Voltage noise characterization is an essential aspect of optimizing the shipped voltage of
high-end processor based systems. Voltage noise, ie Variations in the supply voltage due to …

The traditional guardbanding approach to ensure processor reliability is becoming obsolete
because it always over-provisions voltage and wastes a lot of energy. As a next-generation …

An all-digital dynamically adaptive clock distribution mitigates the impact of high-frequency
supply voltage (V CC) droops on microprocessor performance and energy efficiency. The …

This paper presents a near-threshold operating voltage timing error detecting 32-bit
microcontroller system. The lightweight in situ error detection and correction technique uses …

This paper presents a 16-core voltage-stacked system with adaptive frequency clocking
(AFClk) and a fully integrated voltage regulator that demonstrates efficient on-chip power …

The on-chip droop in processor may cause a severe voltage reduction resulting in a need for
high-speed and high-resolution on-chip voltage sensors. However, traditional voltage …

Automatic calibration circuits for operational calibration of critical-path time delays in
adaptive clock distribution sys tems, and related methods and systems, are disclosed. The …

The demand for high-performance graphics capability even in extremely power-constrained
platforms such as smartphones and tablets requires circuit techniques that scale from …

Aging-aware Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) can eliminate conventional flat voltage guard
band typically added to intrinsic chip V CC to account for transistor aging, therefore reducing …