Thursday, June 19, 2008

Razor Technology

ABSTRACT

Voltage scaling has emerged as a powerful technology for addressing the power challenges that current on-chip densities pose. Razor is a voltage-scaling technology based on dynamic detection and correction of circuit timing errors.

Razor permits design optimizations that tune the energy in a microprocessor pipeline to typical circuit operational-levels. This eliminates the voltage margins that traditional worst-case design methodologies require and lets digital systems to correctly and robustly work at the edge of minimum power consumption. Occasional heavyweight computations may fail and require additional time and energy for recovery, but the optimized pipeline require significantly less energy overall than traditional designs.

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