Session 27 overview: Energy-efficient digital circuits: Energy-efficient digital subcommittee

Next-generation computing devices for mobile applications require energy efficiency, while achieving increased system performance and programmability. This is enabled through ultra-low-voltage operation, application kernel hardware acceleration, and embedded reconfigurable logic. The papers in this session present several advanced implementation techniques to take these trends to the next level and bring them to the market. Examples include back-biasing techniques, variation-resilient near-threshold operation, charge-recovery schemes, and multi-granularity reconfigurable logic. These techniques are demonstrated in real-world applications such as a DSP processor, low-density parity check (LDPC) decoders, a speech-recognition processor, an FFT core, and a JPEG encoder.