Date of Award:
5-2016
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
Sanghamitra Roy
Committee
Sanghamitra Roy
Committee
Koushik Chakraborty
Committee
Ryan Gerdes
Committee
Rose Hu
Committee
Haitao Wang
Abstract
As technology advances, the size of transistor — the basic building block of microprocessors, continues shrinking. The downscaled transistor will make its manufacture process become less controllable, and its operation less predictable. Moreover, smaller transistor size will lead to higher volume of transistors on a single chip, thus increases the chip power consumption. This dissertation proposes various techniques to efficiently tolerate the uncertainties in microprocessors. Also, it proposes an innovative design paradigm to build energy-efficient processor under ultra-low supply-voltage. Evaluated with rigorous methodology, the proposed approaches achieve significant improvement in processor energy efficiency, compared to other state-of-art techniques.
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Recommended Citation
Chen, Hu, "Exploiting Adaptive Techniques to Improve Processor Energy Efficiency" (2016). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 4985.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4985
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