Optimization of reliability and power consumption in systems on a chip

  • Authors:
  • Tajana Simunic;Kresimir Mihic;Giovanni De Micheli

  • Affiliations:
  • CSE Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA;CSL, Stanford U, Stanford, CA;CSL, Stanford U, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • PATMOS'05 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design: power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Aggressive transistor scaling, decreased voltage margins and increased processor power and temperature, have made reliability assessment a much more significant issue in design. Although reliability of devices and interconnect has been broadly studied, here we characterize reliability at the system level. Thus we consider component-based System on Chip designs. Reliability is strongly affected by system temperature, which is in turn driven by power consumption. Thus, component reliability and their power management should be addressed jointly. We present here a joint reliability and power management optimization problem whose solution is an optimal management policy. When careful joint policy optimization is performed, we obtain a significant improvement in energy consumption (40%) in tandem with meeting reliability constraint for all operating temperatures.