Chapter One
An Overview of Architecture-Level Power- and Energy-Efficient Design Techniques
Ivan Ratković*,†; Nikola Bežanić‡; Osman S. Ünsal*; Adrian Cristal*,†,§; Veljko Milutinović‡ * Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain† Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain‡ School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia§ CSIC-IIIA, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
Power dissipation and energy consumption became the primary design constraint for almost all computer systems in the last 15 years. Both computer architects and circuit designers intent to reduce power and energy (without a performance degradation) at all design levels, as it is currently the main obstacle to continue with further scaling ...
