Thundervolt: enabling aggressive voltage underscaling and timing error resilience for energy efficient deep learning accelerators

J Zhang, K Rangineni, Z Ghodsi, S Garg - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Hardware accelerators are being increasingly deployed to boost the performance and
energy efficiency of deep neural network (DNN) inference. In this paper we propose …

Variability mitigation in nanometer CMOS integrated systems: A survey of techniques from circuits to software

A Rahimi, L Benini, RK Gupta - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variation in performance and power across manufactured parts and their operating
conditions is an accepted reality in modern microelectronic manufacturing processes with …

Blade--a timing violation resilient asynchronous template

D Hand, MT Moreira, HH Huang… - 2015 21st IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resilient designs offer the promise to remove increasingly large margins due to process,
voltage, and temperature variations and take advantage of average-case data. However …

Gateway placement for latency and energy efficient data aggregation [wireless sensor networks]

JL Wong, R Jafari, M Potkonjak - 29th Annual IEEE …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose the use of multiple gateways to significantly reduce latency and energy
consumption in multi-hop wireless sensor networks during data aggregation. We have …

Margin elimination through timing error detection in a near-threshold enabled 32-bit microcontroller in 40-nm CMOS

H Reyserhove, W Dehaene - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a near-threshold operating voltage timing error detecting 32-bit
microcontroller system. The lightweight in situ error detection and correction technique uses …

Time-borrowing circuit designs and hardware prototy** for timing error resilience

MR Choudhury, V Chandra, RC Aitken… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As dynamic variability increases with CMOS scaling, it is essential to incorporate large
design-time timing margins to ensure yield and reliable operation. Online techniques for …

SlackProbe: A low overhead in situ on-line timing slack monitoring methodology

L Lai, V Chandra, R Aitken… - 2013 Design, Automation …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In situ monitoring is an accurate way to monitor circuit delay or timing slack, but usually
incurs significant overhead. We observe that most existing slack monitoring methods …

Negative Design Margin Realization through Deep Path Activity Detection Combined with Dynamic Voltage Scaling in a 55 nm Near-Threshold 32-Bit Microcontroller

RZ Yu, ZH Li, X Deng, ZL Liu - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an innovative approach for predicting timing errors tailored to near-/sub-
threshold operations, addressing the energy-efficient requirements of digital circuits in …

Energy and reliability oriented map** for regular networks-on-chip

C Ababei, HS Kia, OP Yadav, J Hu - Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We formulate the problem of energy consumption and reliability oriented application
map** on regular Network-on-Chip topologies. We propose a novel branch-and-bound …

On logic synthesis for timing speculation

Y Liu, R Ye, F Yuan, R Kumar, Q Xu - Proceedings of the International …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
By allowing the occurrence of infrequent timing errors and correcting them with rollback
mechanisms, the so-called timing speculation (TS) technique can significantly improve …