On-chip supply boosting can quickly restore a microprocessor core's power rail from near-threshold to super-threshold when critical code sections are encountered. We demonstrate a flip-chip implementation of a supply boosting technique, called …
Supply-voltage scaling has stagnated in recent technology nodes, leading to so-called dark silicon. To increase overall chip multiprocessor (CMP) performance, it is necessary to improve the energy efficiency of individual tasks so that more tasks can …
Fast boosting of supply rails is critical for near-threshold computing to overcome serial code bottlenecks. A novel supply boosting technique, called Shortstop, boosts a 3nF core in 26ns while maintaining acceptable supply voltage droops. The innate …