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Low Cost Dynamic Architecture Adaptation Schemes For Drowsy Cache Management, Nitin Prakash
Low Cost Dynamic Architecture Adaptation Schemes For Drowsy Cache Management, Nitin Prakash
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Energy consumption and speed of execution have long been recognized as conflicting requirements for processor design. In this work, we have developed a low-cost dynamic architecture adaptation scheme to save leakage power in caches. This design uses voltage scaling to implement drowsy caches. The importance of a dynamic scheme for managing drowsy caches, arises from the fact that not only does cache behavior change from one application to the next, but also during different phases of execution within the same application. We discuss various implementations of our scheme that provide a tradeoff between granularity of control and design complexity. …
A Novel Reconfiguration Scheme In Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata For Energy Efficient Nanocomputing, Madhusudan Chilakam
A Novel Reconfiguration Scheme In Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata For Energy Efficient Nanocomputing, Madhusudan Chilakam
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is currently being investigated as an alternative to CMOS technology. There has been extensive study on a wide range of circuits from simple logical circuits such as adders to complex circuits such as 4-bit processors. At the same time, little if any work has been done in considering the possibility of reconfiguration to reduce power in QCA devices. This work presents one of the first such efforts when considering reconfigurable QCA architectures which are expected to be both robust and power efficient. We present a new reconfiguration scheme which is highly robust and is expected to …