Addressing design margins through error-tolerant circuits

  • Authors:
  • Shidhartha Das;David Blaauw;David Bull;Krisztián Flautner;Rob Aitken

  • Affiliations:
  • ARM Ltd., Cambridge, U.K.;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;ARM Ltd., Cambridge, U.K.;ARM Ltd., Cambridge, U.K.;ARM Ltd., Cambridge, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We review adaptive design techniques with particular emphasis on error-tolerant techniques. We compare and contrast traditional adaptive approaches with error-tolerant techniques and analyze the margins eliminated by each of them. We discuss the applications of the latter to on-chip communication and signal-processing. Finally, we focus on a specific example of an error-tolerant technique for general-purpose computing called Razor.