Near-threshold voltage (NTV) design: Opportunities and challenges

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1153-1158

  Kaul, Himanshu ^a   Anders, Mark ^a   Hsu, Steven ^a   Agarwal, Amit ^a   Krishnamurthy, Ram ^a   Borkar, Shekhar ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

energy; NTV; performance; power; subthreshold

Indexed keywords

ENERGY; NTV; PERFORMANCE; POWER; SUBTHRESHOLD;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

EID: 84863539197     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2228360.2228572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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