TY - GEN
T1 - Architecture exploration for ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors
AU - Ma, Kaisheng
AU - Zheng, Yang
AU - Li, Shuangchen
AU - Swaminathan, Karthik
AU - Li, Xueqing
AU - Liu, Yongpan
AU - Sampson, Jack
AU - Xie, Yuan
AU - Narayanan, Vijaykrishnan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/3/6
Y1 - 2015/3/6
N2 - Energy harvesting has been widely investigated as a promising method of providing power for ultra-low-power applications. Such energy sources include solar energy, radio-frequency (RF) radiation, piezoelectricity, thermal gradients, etc. However, the power supplied by these sources is highly unreliable and dependent upon ambient environment factors. Hence, it is necessary to develop specialized systems that are tolerant to this power variation, and also capable of making forward progress on the computation tasks. The simulation platform in this paper is calibrated using measured results from a fabricated nonvolatile processor and used to explore the design space for a nonvolatile processor with different architectures, different input power sources, and policies for maximizing forward progress.
AB - Energy harvesting has been widely investigated as a promising method of providing power for ultra-low-power applications. Such energy sources include solar energy, radio-frequency (RF) radiation, piezoelectricity, thermal gradients, etc. However, the power supplied by these sources is highly unreliable and dependent upon ambient environment factors. Hence, it is necessary to develop specialized systems that are tolerant to this power variation, and also capable of making forward progress on the computation tasks. The simulation platform in this paper is calibrated using measured results from a fabricated nonvolatile processor and used to explore the design space for a nonvolatile processor with different architectures, different input power sources, and policies for maximizing forward progress.
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U2 - 10.1109/HPCA.2015.7056060
DO - 10.1109/HPCA.2015.7056060
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84934295282
T3 - 2015 IEEE 21st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA 2015
SP - 526
EP - 537
BT - 2015 IEEE 21st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 21st IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA 2015
Y2 - 7 February 2015 through 11 February 2015
ER -