TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis of voltage overscaled computer arithmetics in low power signal processing systems
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Zhang, Tong
AU - Parhi, Keshab K.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This work concerns the design of low power signal processing systems at overscaled supply voltage, in which the behavior of computer arithmetic units in response to overscaled voltage plays an importance role. We show that different hardware implementations of the same computer arithmetic function may respond to overscaled voltage very differently and result in different energy saving potential. Therefore, we develop an analytical approach to estimate the statistics of computer arithmetic computation errors due to supply voltages overscaling. Compared with computation intensive circuit simulations, this analytical approach can be several orders of magnitude faster and meanwhile achieve a reasonable accuracy.
AB - This work concerns the design of low power signal processing systems at overscaled supply voltage, in which the behavior of computer arithmetic units in response to overscaled voltage plays an importance role. We show that different hardware implementations of the same computer arithmetic function may respond to overscaled voltage very differently and result in different energy saving potential. Therefore, we develop an analytical approach to estimate the statistics of computer arithmetic computation errors due to supply voltages overscaling. Compared with computation intensive circuit simulations, this analytical approach can be several orders of magnitude faster and meanwhile achieve a reasonable accuracy.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACSSC.2008.5074802
DO - 10.1109/ACSSC.2008.5074802
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349678496
SN - 9781424429417
T3 - Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
SP - 2093
EP - 2097
BT - 2008 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ASILOMAR 2008
T2 - 2008 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ASILOMAR 2008
Y2 - 26 October 2008 through 29 October 2008
ER -