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Adaptive Techniques for Dynamic Processor Optimization

Theory and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Alice Wang

    1. Texas Instruments, Dallas, USA

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  2. Samuel Naffziger

    1. Advanced Micro Devices, Fort Collins, USA

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  • Focuses on various adaptive and dynamic techniques to optimize processor power and performance.
  • Includes information on the underlying process technology for adaptive designs.
  • Addresses the different aspects of different circuits, architecture, and software.
  • Contains chapters by both academic and industry engineers in order to provide a larger scope of alternative practices.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICIR)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Technology Challenges Motivating Adaptive Techniques

    • David Scott, Alice Wang
    Pages 3-23

  3. Technological Boundaries of Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Power Performance Tuning

    • Maurice Meijer, José Pineda de Gyvez
    Pages 25-47

  4. Adaptive Circuit Technique for Managing Power Consumption

    • Tadahiro Kuroda, Takayasu Sakurai
    Pages 49-73

  5. Dynamic Adaptation Using Body Bias, Supply Voltage, and Frequency

    • James Tschanz
    Pages 75-93

  6. Adaptive Supply Voltage Delivery for Ultra-dynamic Voltage Scaled Systems

    • Yogesh K. Ramadass, Joyce Kwong, Naveen Verma, Anantha Chandrakasan
    Pages 95-122

  7. Dynamic Voltage Scaling with the XScale Embedded Microprocessor

    • Lawrence T. Clark, Franco Ricci, William E. Brown
    Pages 123-143

  8. Sensors for Critical Path Monitoring

    • Alan Drake
    Pages 145-174

  9. Architectural Techniques for Adaptive Computing

    • Shidhartha Das, David Roberts, David Blaauw, David Bull, Trevor Mudge
    Pages 175-205

  10. Variability-Aware Frequency Scaling in Multi-Clock Processors

    • Sebastian Herbert, Diana Marculescu
    Pages 207-227

  11. Temporal Adaptation – Asynchronicity in Processor Design

    • Steve Furber, Jim Garside
    Pages 229-247

  12. Dynamic and Adaptive Techniques in SRAM Design

    • John J. Wuu
    Pages 249-272

  13. The Challenges of Testing Adaptive Designs

    • Eric Fetzer, Jason Stinson, Brian Cherkauer, Steve Poehlman
    Pages 273-301

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 303-304
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About this book

The integrated circuit has evolved tremendously in recent years as Moore’s Law has enabled exponentially more devices and functionality to be packed onto a single piece of silicon. In some ways however, these highly integrated circuits, of which microprocessors are the flagship example, have become victims of their own success. Despite dramatic reductions in the switching energy of the transistors, these reductions have kept pace neither with the increased integration levels nor with the higher switching frequencies. In addition, the atomic dimensions being utilized by these highly integrated processors have given rise to much higher levels of random and systematic variation which undercut the gains from process scaling that would otherwise be realized. So these factors—the increasing impact of variation and the struggle to control power consumption—have given rise to a tremendous amount of innovation in the area of adaptive techniques for dynamic processor optimization. The fundamental premise behind adaptive processor design is the recognition that variations in manufacturing and environment cause a statically configured operating point to be far too inefficient. Inefficient designs waste power and performance and will quickly be surpassed by more adaptive designs, just as it happens in the biological realm. Organisms must adapt to survive, and a similar trend is seen with processors – those that are enabled to adapt to their environment, will be far more competitive.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas Instruments, Dallas, USA

    Alice Wang

  • Advanced Micro Devices, Fort Collins, USA

    Samuel Naffziger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adaptive Techniques for Dynamic Processor Optimization

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice

  • Editors: Alice Wang, Samuel Naffziger

  • Series Title: Integrated Circuits and Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76472-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76471-9Published: 11 June 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4553-2Published: 23 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-76472-6Published: 23 July 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1558-9412

  • Series E-ISSN: 1558-9420

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 304

  • Number of Illustrations: 145 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering

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