Supply Voltage Adjustment Technique for Low Power Consumption and Its Application to SOCs with Multiple Threshold Voltage CMOS

Author

Okano, Hiroshi ; Shiota, Tetsuyoshi ; Kawabe, Yukihito ; Shibamoto, Wataru ; Hashimoto, Tetsutaro ; Inoue, Atsuki

Author_Institution

Fujitsu Labs. Ltd., Kawasaki

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

208

Lastpage

209

Abstract

An energy-saving system for SOCs using multiple threshold voltage CMOS was developed. It equips process sensors and process-voltage conversion table generated from static timing analysis results, and adjusts. The supply voltage according to die-to-die process variation. We applied this system to an embedded dual-core microprocessor using 90nm triple Threshold voltage CMOS technology. When the microprocessor executes video stream decoding program, 17% power reduction was measured with dies of typical process condition

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; low-power electronics; system-on-chip; 90 nm; SOC; die-to-die process variation; embedded dual core microprocessor; energy saving system; low power consumption; multiple threshold voltage CMOS; process voltage conversion table; static timing analysis; supply voltage adjustment; typical process condition; video stream decoding program; CMOS technology; Circuits; Energy consumption; Frequency; Leakage current; Logic devices; Microprocessors; Threshold voltage; Timing; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Circuits, 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. 2006 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0006-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSIC.2006.1705383

Filename

1705383