An Implementation of a 32-bit ARM Processor Using Dual Power Supplies and Dual Threshold Voltages

Authors:
Robert Bai;Sarvesh Kulkarni;Wesley Kwong;Ashish Srivastava;Dennis Sylvester;David Blaauw
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Venue:
ISVLSI '03 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI'03)
Year:
2003

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Abstract

With the explosion of portable electronic devices,power efficient processors have become increasinglyimportant. In this paper we present a set of circuittechniques to implement a 32-bit low-power ARMprocessor, found commonly in embedded systems, using asix metal layer 0.18 µm TSMC process. Our methodologyis based on Clustered Voltage Scaling (CVS) and dual-Vthtechniques aiming to reduce both dynamic power andstatic power simultaneously.