Power Variability and Its Impact on Design

  • Authors:
  • Anirudh Devgan;Sani Nassif

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research;IBM Research

  • Venue:
  • VLSID '05 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Power is emerging as the next grand challenge in integrated circuit design. Impact of increasing power consumption can be seen from handheld device all the way to design of high end server microprocessors. Total power consumption is increasingly governed by exponentially increasing leakage power in newer process technologies. Along with increase in power consumption, the industry is also facing growing issues with inherent environmental and process variations.This growing variability has a tremendous impact on power and power variability. In this paper, we review various issues with power variability and its impact on design.