• DocumentCode
    2104814
  • Title

    Dynamic-sleep transistor and body bias for active leakage power control of microprocessors

  • Author

    Tschanz, J. ; Narendra, S. ; Yibin Ye ; Bloechel, B. ; Borkar, S. ; De, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    13-13 Feb. 2003
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Abstract
    Sleep transistors and body bias are used to control active leakage for a 32b integer execution core implemented in a 100nm dual V, CMOS technology. A PMOS sleep transistor degrades performance by 4% but offers 20/spl times/ leakage reduction which is further improved with body bias. Time constants for leakage convergence range from 30ns to 300ns allowing 9-44% power savings for idle periods greater than 100 clock cycles.
  • Keywords
    CMOS digital integrated circuits; leakage currents; microprocessor chips; 100 nm; 30 to 300 ns; 32 bit; CMOS technology; active leakage power control; body bias; clock cycles; dynamic-sleep transistor; idle periods; integer execution core; leakage convergence; microprocessors; CMOS technology; Clocks; Frequency; MOS devices; Microprocessors; Power control; Power grids; Power measurement; Sleep; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2003 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7707-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2003.1234225
  • Filename
    1234225