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2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Voltage Island Generation under Performance Requirement for SoC Designs
Yokohama
January 23-January 26
ISBN: 1-4244-0629-3
Wai-Kei Mak, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua Universtiy, Taiwan 300 R.O.C.
Jr-Wei Chen, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua Universtiy, Taiwan 300 R.O.C.
Using multiple supply voltages on a SoC design is an efficient way to achieve low power. However, it may lead to a complex power network and a huge number of level shifters if we just set the cores to operate at their respective lowest voltage levels. We present two formulations for the voltage level assignment problem. The first is exact but takes longer time to compute a solution. The second can be solved much faster with virtually no loss on optimality. In addition, we propose a modification to the traditional floorplanning framework. Unlike previous works [1] [2], we can optimize the total power consumption, the level shifter overhead, and the power network complexity without compromising the wirelength and the chip area. In the experiments, we obtained 17-53% power savings with voltage island generation.
Citation:
Wai-Kei Mak, Jr-Wei Chen, "Voltage Island Generation under Performance Requirement for SoC Designs," asp-dac, pp.798-803, 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2007
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