Opportunistic design margining for area and power efficient processor pipelines in real time applications

• Main Authors: Jayakrishnan, Mini, Chang, Alan, Kim, Tony Tae-Hyoung
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Variation Tolerance; Slack Balancing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86547; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45295
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The semiconductor industry is strategically focusing on automotive markets, and significant investment is targeted to addressing these markets. Runtime better-than-worst-case designs like Razor lead to massive timing errors upon breaching the critical operating point and have significant area overhe...