Design issues for dynamic voltage scaling

  • Authors:
  • Thomas D. Burd;Robert W. Brodersen

  • Affiliations:
  • Berkeley Wireless Research Center, University of California, Berkeley 2108 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA;Berkeley Wireless Research Center, University of California, Berkeley 2108 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • ISLPED '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Processors in portable electronic devices generally have a computational load which has time-varying performance requirements. Dynamic Voltage Scaling is a method to vary the processors supply voltage so that it consumes the minimal amount of energy by operating at the minimum performance level required by the active software processes. A dynamically varying supply voltage has implications on the processor circuit design and design flow, but with some minimal constraints it is straightforward to design a processor with this capability.