Accurate temperature estimation using noisy thermal sensors for Gaussian and non-Gaussian cases

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1617-1626

  Zhang, Yufu ^a   Srivastava, Ankur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic thermal management (DTM); estimation; on chip sensor; temperature

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL TEMPERATURE; CIRCUIT PARAMETER; DYNAMIC THERMAL MANAGEMENT; ESTIMATION SCHEMES; GAUSSIANS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOMENT-MATCHING; MULTI CORE; MULTI SENSOR; NON-GAUSSIAN; ON CHIPS; ON-CHIP SENSOR; ON-CHIP SENSORS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; RUNTIME OVERHEADS; RUNTIMES; SENSOR READINGS; SINGLE SENSOR; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM ON CHIPS; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION; THERMAL MONITORING; THERMAL SENSORS;

ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

EID: 79961007563     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2010.2051567     Document Type: Article

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