TY - GEN
T1 - A novel design methodology for error-resilient circuits in near-Threshold computing
AU - Lee, Jaemin
AU - Kim, Sunmean
AU - Kim, Youngmin
AU - Kang, Seokhyeong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/1/3
Y1 - 2017/1/3
N2 - Recently, supply voltage has been reduced for low power applications, and near threshold computing (NTC) is considered as a promising solution for optimal energy efficiency. However, NTC suffers a significant performance degradation, which is prone to timing errors. Thus, in order to improve the reliability of NTC operations, error-resilient techniques are indispensable, though they cause area and power overheads. In this paper, we propose a design methodology which provides an optimal implementation of error- resilient circuits. A modified Quine-McCluskey (O-M) algoiithm is exploited to earn the minimum set of error- resilient circuits without any loss of detection ability. From the proposed design flow, benchmark results show that optimal design reduces up to 72% of required flip-flops to be changed to error-resilient circuits without compromising an error detection ability.
AB - Recently, supply voltage has been reduced for low power applications, and near threshold computing (NTC) is considered as a promising solution for optimal energy efficiency. However, NTC suffers a significant performance degradation, which is prone to timing errors. Thus, in order to improve the reliability of NTC operations, error-resilient techniques are indispensable, though they cause area and power overheads. In this paper, we propose a design methodology which provides an optimal implementation of error- resilient circuits. A modified Quine-McCluskey (O-M) algoiithm is exploited to earn the minimum set of error- resilient circuits without any loss of detection ability. From the proposed design flow, benchmark results show that optimal design reduces up to 72% of required flip-flops to be changed to error-resilient circuits without compromising an error detection ability.
KW - Error- resilient circuit
KW - Near-Threshold computing (NTC)
KW - Quine-mccluskey (Q-M) algorithm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011051982&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICCE-Asia.2016.7804807
DO - 10.1109/ICCE-Asia.2016.7804807
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85011051982
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia, ICCE-Asia 2016
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia, ICCE-Asia 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia, ICCE-Asia 2016
Y2 - 26 October 2016 through 28 October 2016
ER -