A survey of design techniques for system-level dynamic power management

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 299-316

  Benini, Luca ^a,b   Bogliolo, Alessandro ^a,c   De Micheli, Giovanni ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy conservation; Energy management; Optimization methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DYNAMIC POWER MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC CONTROL;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033706197     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/92.845896     Document Type: Review

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